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Orlando Health Bayfront Hospital is a 480-bed tertiary care center in St. Petersburg, equipped to provide comprehensive medical and surgical care. The hospital offers many areas of expertise, including surgery and trauma, neuroscience, cardiology, acute rehabilitation and obstetrics. The hospital has a 38-bed neurosciences unit with a dedicated ...
In the U.S., the average wait time for a first-time appointment is 24 days (≈3 times faster than in Canada); wait times for Emergency Room (ER) services averaged 24 minutes (more than 4x faster than in Canada); wait times for specialists averaged between 3–6.4 weeks (over 6x faster than in Canada).
In early January 2012, construction workers finished expansion of the emergency room. The emergency room was almost tripled in size to 12,700 square feet and the number of exam rooms increased from 9 to 17. On July 5, 2013, Pasco Regional Medical Center was rebranded by Health Management Associates to Bayfront Health Dade City.
The regional hospital system runs an emergency room out of its Waccamaw Community Hospital in Murrells Inlet, where wait times are around 32 minutes before seeing a doctor and up to nearly four ...
By 2009, waiting times at Palisades Medical Center were reduced to nine minutes, with a maximum of 11 minutes, improvements that were attributed to the a mid-2009 update to PMC's emergency room, specifically, the construction of a Rapid Evaluation Unit (REU), in which patients are asked questions and treated by two nurses: a technician and a ...
Around 10:30 a.m., the hospital's website indicated wait times had jumped to more than 16 hours at the main emergency room. This afternoon, they decreased to more than three hours.
In 2020, Steward Health Care System closed the satellite emergency room at Quincy Medical Center, making Quincy the largest city in the state without one. Steward bought Quincy Medical Center in ...
Waiting to get an appointment with a physician, staying in a waiting room before an appointment, and being observed during a physician's watchful waiting are different concepts in waiting for healthcare. When a patient is waiting, their family and friends may also be waiting for an outcome. Waiting time influences patient satisfaction.