ER in an emergency setting
 

TV ticks most boxes for us however the ERs/Hospitals seem questionable. In the case of a life threatening emergency what is the best ER(s) to be taken to ?

The problem with TV is old people go to the ER for hangnails, toothaches, and someone to talk to.

In a real emergency, the closest hospital is usually the best.

There's nothing about that, that is exclusive to The Villages or old people. Every ER I've ever been in, as a patient or helping someone else, has had people who don't have an actual emergency waiting for care.

Including toothaches, flu symptoms, skinned knees, and non-specific stomach aches that are most likely just gas cramps.

As I told my brother last year when he came to visit from Georgia. "If you are concerned about UF emergency rooms and the expertise of the staff than by all means head north on I-75 until you get up near Atlanta and look for a sign for Grady Memorial Hospital which is located up against the I-75 wall on the southbound side. Then exit Edgewood Ave and go under the freeway. I'm sure you will be fine until you arrive".

Usually, though by virtue of moving to TV when one picks their village they also pick their ER. The question then is which one.

Unless it’s the place off El Camino Real, anyplace else would be light years better (or at least couldn’t possibly be worse).

In a "life threatening emergency" why would you go anywhere other than the nearest ER?

Sure, one a bit further away might give you slightly better treatment, but if the delay makes you D.O.A. then that doesn't really help you, does it?

Not when you go to the nearest place, wait for 12 hours, get negligibly misdiagnosed and are booted out the door after midnight in no shape to drive home and are in worse shape than when you walked in. Yes, it would most definitely help you to go a bit further away!

All emergency rooms such, no matter which state you live in.

The px doesn't decide. The 911 crew generally is directed to the closest ER. In some cases the OMD or ER charge Dr will direct to another facility based on the info relayed from the crew. Such as Level 1 trauma center, need for a helo, other factors.

In an emergency don’t drive yourself, so often someone doesn’t want to call 911 and uses POV. On way to ER the medical episode worsens and they cause an accident, oftentimes causing serious damage of fatality to others. Please don’t be that guy.

I had to call 911 last year when I fell and broke my kneecap in half. I live in TV. TV ambulance picked me up. I didn’t get a choice. They took me to Leesburg hospital. I was told by them that’s where the on call Orthopedic surgeon was. I got there. X-rays. Confirmed I needed surgery but there was no on call dr there. That doctor was at TV hospital and they refused to transfer me there because the ambulance took me to Leesburg. I still can’t walk and have had 4 surgeries and I blame the week I had to search for an Orthopedic surgeon to do my surgery. The mistake of one ambulance driver can turn into years long issues.

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Medical personnel are in very short supply.
 

Another 15 million patients to look after over the past couple of years and they don’t have to pay for anything you pay for it for them.

If you wanted a good Hospital , you moved to the wrong place. Due diligence is not just about restaurants and grocery stores.