In part three of his ongoing series saving america s hospitals.
Emergency room waiting area.
Sault area hospital s wait time clock lets people know the amount of patients being treated the amount of patients currently waiting and the amount of time that this means a new patient would have to wait.
People who are vomiting their guts out get a room more quickly.
Please remember we provide care to the most critical cases first.
American patients spend about two hours on average in the emergency department ed and more than half an hour in the waiting area.
Nurse all i have is this cut on my finger.
Never tell an e r.
The estimated waiting time to see a physician in emergency is approximate and is for informational purposes only.
These wait times are mainly due to the triage process that s required for hospital admission patient boarding waiting for a bed shortage of medical staff and sometimes an abnormally high number of patients from local accidents or disasters.
The admitting clerks don t like vomit in the waiting area joan somes r n st.
Patients who check into a hospital s emergency room er often experience long wait times.
All priority i patients are managed here.
Major trauma medical area.
Why can t someone just look at it that just shows you have no idea how the e r.
Many emergency room patients however can physically afford to wait for some period of time rather than booking an appointment.
A patient maybe shifted to the resus area from outside or from an area within the hospital or emergency department itself.