[gomoho]

[quote=njbchbum;706881]

Originally Posted by gomoho

it was a joke! and not a solicitation for criticism.

I wasn't criticizing merely asking a question - sorry didn't get the joke!!!

[Mudder]

There is an app for your phone too to check out wait times. It's a start.

[OurHappyHome]

Originally Posted by LillyD

Central Florida Hospitals | Leesburg Regional | Villages Hospital | Central Florida Health Alliance

Link for wait time.

Wow I just looked at the page and its 56 min wait in Leesberg and 4 min in TV

[redwitch]

Seeing the nurse for triage should be very quick. To me, the wait time is how long to get treated or at least see a physician, not how long to have someone see you to determine how much of an emergency your visit really is. So, I'm not convinced how much relevance this link really has.

[ilovetv]

This is silliness. What good is it to get seen and put in an ER bed if all the other rooms are filled with critical or complicated patients the doctors and nurses are attending to, while lab and other test turnaround times are taking hours, and there are no beds upstairs to which the patients can be sent if they're being admitted??

It's the hospital--not just the ER--that is constipated.

[Russ_Boston]

Originally Posted by ilovetv

This is silliness. What good is it to get seen and put in an ER bed if all the other rooms are filled with critical or complicated patients the doctors and nurses are attending to, while lab and other test turnaround times are taking hours, and there are no beds upstairs to which the patients can be sent if they're being admitted??

It's the hospital--not just the ER--that is constipated.

I've been saying this for years but everyone says "why don't they post wait times like GOOD hospitals do". Nothing but PR.

[ilovetv]

Originally Posted by ilovetv
This is silliness. What good is it to get seen and put in an ER bed if all the other rooms are filled with critical or complicated patients the doctors and nurses are attending to, while lab and other test turnaround times are taking hours, and there are no beds upstairs to which the patients can be sent if they're being admitted??

It's the hospital--not just the ER--that is constipated.

Originally Posted by Russ_Boston

I've been saying this for years but everyone says "why don't they post wait times like GOOD hospitals do". Nothing but PR.

And the cure for constipation is a darn good enema--an administrative enema!!!!

I feel sorry for the nurses and doctors on the front lines, whose reputation gets constantly smeared because administrators sit in meetings and come up with P.R. crap like this, that makes the clinicians look like they're not even capable of keeping pace at a fast-food joint.

Human beings that are sick in many different ways within one single body are a lot more complex and variable than cranking out hamburgers on a grill and assembly line!

[StarbuckSammy]

If posting a wait time in an ER is just "PR" as a few posters state..then so be it. As I type Leesburg Hospital wait time is 56 minutes compared to The Villages Hospital of 4 minutes.....which would you select...all things being equal?
Opps...as I was double checking the times I noticed that the wait times as indicated are for July 12, 9:12 PM....As I write this it is 2:55 PM, July 13!
Now I am disappointed....

[asianthree]

Originally Posted by Mudder

There is an app for your phone too to check out wait times. It's a start.

yeah people who work in a hospital use that app on their way into work to see how the day will be

[kittygilchrist]

[quote=njbchbum;706881]

Originally Posted by gomoho

it was a joke! and not a solicitation for criticism.

I get tired of saying it was a joke. I'm in an irritable mood waiting for the GZ verdict. anyway keep joking, and if I don't get it, smack me.
Ktty

[kittygilchrist]

Originally Posted by Russ_Boston

As I've said before: Posting wait times is strictly a marketing gimmick. It makes you feel good but doesn't really change any of your ER experience. If you go when it's busy and see a doctor within X minutes you will still have to wait a very long time after that if your condition is not emergent. But they SAW you in X minutes.

Plain and simple - law of supply and demand in any business.

but, but, but Russ, I'm from Gainesville, medical mecca of the universe and after uncountable waits in ERs in a lifetime of social work, family, self, never had less than a 6 hr wait (sans chest pain sx), never got full scale triage before giving ins info outside in the lobby for the patient before the wait began..

I may be coming from zero medically, but a couple weeks ago, TV triaged my friend immediately without asking ins info, put her in a bed, advised of likely kidney stones, then took ins info at BEDSIDE, and did diagnostics (ct scan?), sent an articulate md who was the first of many to help my friend know her medical options from then and scientifically how to decide between them, and discharged w/ comprehensive info and meds..
IN 38 minutes?
that's no marketing gimmick. Is it? Tell me it's not..
triage told me they cannot always work so quickly in season. If it was just a marketing gimmick they should shut her up.
Kitty
ps I want calzone. Will trade time with therapy boxer dog and hot tubbing for you and wife? or I'll beg..?