Current status of local ER

which ER? Peacehealth SW?

Yes, Peacehealth on Mill Plain. Nearly every seat in the lobby is full and people are standing.

Still in the waiting room. O.o

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Tards tend to multiply when the flock together

Why ask us? You're there. Walk around and ask people "what are you in for?" then report back your findings.

Sup OP. Regards from Brush Prairie.

I've been there 3 times in the past year. That's prob
double what I"ve seen and more unusual on a Monday,
I worked in an ER forty years ago and weekends were
always the peak.

LOL yeah, just tell them you're taking a survey.

OP, is hub ok? Is it gallstones?

Try an acute care clinic. There are usually some 24-hour clinics that accept non-life-threatening emergencies like severe abdominal pain, broken bones, etc. They are less crowded and far cheaper.

Good luck.
Hope your patient gets prompt care!

Lol just 40 ...try going to a Canadian ER

And if they refuse to share for privacy reasons, just say you're doing it for contact tracing.

In a Canadian ER, you start in the big room with 40 people where you wait 6 hours, then they send you to the smaller rooms where you wait another 3 hours.

Or more.

normal life use to fill the ER's.

Thank you!

No gallstones but it was his gallbladder. They removed it the next morning.

We went to an urgent care first. They sent him over to ER. Good suggestion though, thank you.

We waited in the ER lobby 4 hours. They did labs throughout the wait but kept sending him out to the lobby. All of the patients were sporting blood pressure cuffs while waiting.

The crowd started thinning out just before he went to the back room.

Here's the weirdest part- after the CT SCAN, they admitted him overnight, but they didn't send him to the floor. We stayed overnight in an ER room until his surgery in the morning.

The ER docs said there were NO rooms. Post surgery, he was sent to the floor to recover. The nurses told us that it wasn't that there were no rooms, there wasn't staff to watch all the rooms.

He's recovering well at this time. He's in some pain but he's happy not to be in agony and vomiting.

They did run a covid rapid test once he was officially admitted for the night, but not before.

Goodness! That really is painful :(

Hope he's on the mend now!