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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).
The Emergency Severity Index (ESI) is a five-level emergency department triage algorithm, initially developed in 1998 by emergency physicians Richard Wurez and David Eitel. [1] It was previously maintained by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) but is currently maintained by the Emergency Nurses Association (ENA).
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 ...
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.
Saint Vincent patients waited the longest, 226 minutes on average in the most recent year reported, before leaving the ER, followed by Hamot (203 minutes), and LECOM Health's Corry Memorial ...
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.
Tampa General Hospital is home to one of the leading organ transplant centers in the country, having performed more than 9,000 adult solid organ transplants, including the state's first successful heart transplant in 1985. Tampa General Hospital is a level one trauma center, with a five-helicopter fleet, serving 23 counties.