Iowa hospitals best for quick emergency turnaround; St. Luke’s even faster March 10, 2008
Posted by John in Health Care, Medicine.Tags: Cedar Rapids (Iowa), Iowa City (Iowa), St. Luke's Hospital, Hospitals, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
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From Nurse.com:
Iowa hospitals were the quickest in the country to provide emergency medical attention. The average emergency visit was 2 hours, 18 minutes compared to the national average of 3:42.
Nebraska rated second fastest in the nation at 2:26, followed by South Dakota (2:28), Vermont (2:32), and Wisconsin (2:34). The longest visits were in Arizona (4:57), Maryland (4:07), Utah (4:04), New York (3:58), and Florida (3:57). …
St. Luke’s Hospital, a 560-bed community hospital in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, saw 51,632 patients in its ED last year and beat the state record by logging an average visit time of 2:10. …
The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, a 750-bed academic medical center in Iowa City…has seen ED length of stay drop from 2:52 to 2:33. …
Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis saw 77,847 patients last year and averaged a 6-hour, 30-minute length of stay.
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