My permanent home is in Winston Salem, NC, home of Wake Forest Baptist Hospital(university teaching hospital). I've gone to the Emergency Room for myself twice, husband went twice, mother (92 yrs. old) twice last year).....six visits. ALL of them required no more than 20 minutes wait time. Admitting is done by an ER nurse, who determines the severity. With mom diagnosed quickly with sepsis, blood pressure dropping rapidly, (blood poisoning all over her body), they told me to stand back and the ER team went to work as if they were saving the Gov. of the state....they were fast, efficient, as they were in the other five instances, saved her life twice last year. Wake Forest Baptist rates #22 in the Nation for hospitals, second in the state to Duke University Hospital by one point, and the care is phenominal. Mother is a medicaid patient, and they sent for an air mattress for her due to bed sores from the nursing home she was in. I can't say enough great things about good hospitals. I've heard enough about this one to pray everytime I come down, that I don't need them......
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