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2. Emergency room wait times are rising nationally. What it ...

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   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 ...

3. Emergency department - Wikipedia

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   The main patient area inside the Mobile Medical Unit operated in Belle Chasse, Louisiana. An emergency department (ED), also known as an accident and emergency department (A&E), emergency room (ER), emergency ward (EW) or casualty department, is a medical treatment facility specializing in emergency medicine, the acute care of patients who present without prior appointment; either by their own ...

4. Comparison of the healthcare systems in Canada and the United ...

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   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).

5. ER blues: Wait times longer at Erie hospital emergency ... - AOL

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   ER wait times declined early in the COVID-19 pandemic, then rose. ER wait times actually declined in the early months of the pandemic, when many patients avoided the ER unless they thought they ...

6. 10 hours? Wait times soar at Aultman Hospital emergency room ...

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   Patients were told early this morning that wait times were about 10 hours. Around 10:30 a.m., the hospital's website indicated wait times had jumped to more than 16 hours at the main emergency room.

7. Kings County Hospital Center - Wikipedia

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   Kings County Hospital Center is a municipal hospital located in the East Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City. It is owned and operated by NYC Health + Hospitals, a municipal agency that runs New York City's public hospitals. It has been affiliated with SUNY Downstate College of Medicine since Downstate's founding as Long Island ...

8. Hospital emergency codes - Wikipedia

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   Hospital emergency codes are coded messages often announced over a public address system of a hospital to alert staff to various classes of on-site emergencies. The use of codes is intended to convey essential information quickly and with minimal misunderstanding to staff while preventing stress and panic among visitors to the hospital.

9. County to Mission: 'ER situation unsafe, unsustainable;' new ...

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   In July the Citizen Times reported that hospital staff and local emergency service leaders pinned the lengthening wait times on an overtaxed emergency department and understaffed hospital patient ...