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.
Emergency room waiting area.
Never tell an e r.
All priority ii patients are managed here.
Why can t someone just look at it that just shows you have no idea how the e r.
Major trauma medical 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.
Estimated wait times are updated every 2 minutes see the disclaimer.
Patients who check into a hospital s emergency room er often experience long wait times.
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.
All priority i patients are managed here.
In part three of his ongoing series saving america s hospitals.
Nurse all i have is this cut on my finger.
Please remember we provide care to the most critical cases first.
People who are vomiting their guts out get a room more quickly.
American patients spend about two hours on average in the emergency department ed and more than half an hour in the waiting area.