Beth Israel Emergency Room Wait Times Longer than Other Boston Hospitals
Medicare database shows how hospitals across Boston—and the nation—compare for care. Hospitals, meanwhile, criticized the data as inaccurate.
Which Boston emergency room is the most efficient? It depends on what you mean, according to data released by the Center for Medicare & Medicid Services. The average wait time for the emergency room at Beth Israel Deaconess is about 34 minutes before a patient receives first contact with a medical professional. Compare that with Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where wait time is an average of 27 minutes. The National Average is a solid half hour, where as Mass General Hospital offers an average of a 10-minute wait. Both Brigham and Women’s and Beth Israel patients have a long wait ahead of them when it comes to being sent home. Key measures of ER efficiency have been posted from hospitals taking part across the country, according to a …
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R. Thomoson
4:37 pm on Tuesday, March 12, 2013
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