Posted on July 28 at 7:08 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
ihavealife..I'm not sure what you were talking about with the accident vicitms..We have sent in the past to other facilities...but were not the only hospital to do that..I can't speak for the clinics etc...I do agree that it is time that the administration starts waking up.
Posted on July 27 at 9:22 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
I happen to be a MERCY ER RN and can say that the care we provide is good quality care considering what we have been through in the last year....The nursing staff is the best I've seen in years. I think if the ANTI MERCY could sit through a shift and see what we go through on a daily basis then they would not be so ANTI. People need to realize that the Emergency room is for EMERGENCIES and not for something minor that you've had for 6 months and suddenly today is the day you decide to have it looked at. Think how you would feel as a caregiver working a trauma patient and having to tell that family they didn't make it. Then in the same hour going into another room for lets say a toothache and only hearing how bad the wait has been and how terrible the care is. People wake up if it isn't an emergency it won't be treated as such. If it was your family we were trying to save you would want us to do everything we could. Do we have areas we could improve on OH YES..I think we need to stop remodeling and keep the money where we need it in PATIENT CARE!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Posted on July 31 at 3:58 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
MOOOSHOO...It isn't the emergency dept that holds up the police officers it is the inadequate crisis center..If a patient is brought in with JPD for medical clearance they are usually cleared with in 1-2 hours by our physican. Then the wait begings for the crisis or pysch dept to find adequate placement. Most of time it is the outlining facilities that are the hold up on transfer....Maybe instead of always blaming the "BAD MERCY EMERGENCY DEPT" the Gazette should start reporting more actual instead of one sided stories...