10 Worst Emergency Room Wait Times in MA
Friday, October 24, 2014
Related Slideshow: 10 Worst Emergency Room Wait Times in MA
The slides below show the 10 hospitals in Massachusetts with the worst emergency room wait times. The wait time is how long a patient has to wait before being seen by a doctor, physician’s assistant, or nurse practitioner. Wait time before admission is how long emergency room visitors who later became inpatients had to wait before being admitted. Wait time before transfer is how long admitted patients had to wait before being transferred to their hospital bed. Time in ER is the total time a visitor who was not admitted as an inpatient spent in the emergency room. Percent who leave before being seen refers to those visitors who decided to leave before being seen by a doctor. For all measures, lower numbers are better. The below hospitals are ranked from shortest to longest wait times. Data was taken from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service. It corresponds to information collected from fall 2012 to fall 2013.
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