The treatment rooms look more like regular hospital rooms with solid walls and doors with glass panels, monitors, call buttons, intercoms and in some rooms televisions and phones. An operating room is located directly above the emergency rooms so patients can be transferred quickly if surgery is indicated. Hall joined the tour and commented on the new facility. They got excellent care but the old space wasn t designed to treat that many people. Doerger expects that they will see approximately 94,000 patients by the end of 2001.
Most patients wait under an hour.
That is far better than many cities like Chicago and New York where wait time can be up to eight hours. We have a call list of 1,200 doctors in various specialties, too. Another facet of emergency services is the CareFlight helicopter. Chief flight nurse Dave Evans showed one of his helicopters, parked on its pad on the roof of the hospital. Inside the helicopter there is room for two stretchers, an attendant and a myriad of sophisticated diagnostic equipment, and the cockpit has two seats.