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Title: Which State Has The Longest Emergency Room Visit Time?
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URL Source: https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/w ... gest-emergency-room-visit-time
Published: Jan 15, 2025
Author: Tyler Durden
Post Date: 2025-01-15 20:31:01 by Horse
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Views: 805
Comments: 6
Emergency room wait times vary significantly across the United States depending on factors such as hospital resources, patient volume, and staffing levels, with some states facing delays that can stretch for more than three hours. Long stays in the emergency department often point to issues like understaffing or overcrowding, leading to delays in treatment, and often times, worse patient health outcomes. This map, via Visual Capitalist's Kayla Zhu, visualizes the average time patients spend in the emergency department before leaving, by U.S. state and territory. Data comes from the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and is updated as of Oct. 30, 2024. This data reflects the average time patients spend at the emergency department, from the time they arrive to the time they leave, and excludes those who died in the emergency department, left without the approval of a licensed provider, or lacked documented discharge destinations. Which State Has the Longest Emergency Room Visit Time? Below, we show the average time patients spent in the emergency room before leaving, by state. (Go to Source) Poster Comment: Indiana 2 hrs 5 mins. Tn is 2 hrs 38 mins. But my small town is probably faster than Memphis and Nashville.
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By and by we joke around here about new business construction will be a car wash or ER, though oddly never together. Gotta keep em separated?
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