Not a fan of Hospitals or the ER. But I found myself in the ER recently. The facility is clean and bare. Not much there to spread germs that's for certain. No magazines, children books, newspapers laying around. The wait was forever long, I guess my pain was not an emergency in their eyes so I got pushed to the back over and over. I choose JCL North Mountain because It is my intention to volunteer here. They give a lot back to the community and they are rated as one of the best places to work (that also has a low stress factor- how that can be in hospital amazes me).
Things are pretty laid back here in the ER. You sign/write your issue down instead of verbalizing it to the entire wait room. I like that sense of privacy. You aren't openly asked a bunch of billing and payment questions before all else. This amazed me. And they seem to have two waiting areas once your vitals are taken. One for the injured and one for the sick that keeps you from becoming ill if you are just injured. Or at least that was the best I could figure from the way separated me and another injured person. If this is the case that is very wise planning.
My wait was 4.5 hours! With that said I was disappointed because I was in pain. I placed my pain at 8 on their 1 to 10 pain scale with 10 being the highest. Maybe I should have cried and screamed out in pain? Then maybe I would have been taken more serious? I don't know. Maybe they are understaffed? Well with that wait I saw a Doctor's assistant for all of 10 minutes and was told that what I was doing was all that could be done! Gee can I get a job here too then?!
Referred to an outside source for a dental emergency and released. I thought since they have a dental emergency clinic for Children there might be someone there to help me. Wrong!
Now I only fear the bill for this useless wait and even more useless visit of 10 minutes. But since I have never had a dental emergency before I'll say the place is A-OK based on it's cleanliness and sterile enviro and the fact that they take privacy to a new level.
SO if you are doing anything freaky that hurts you, you might consider this ER if you're in a pickle and might be embarrassed by the actions that bring you there. The hush hush sense of privacy at the door where you fill in a form to tell them your trouble/ or situation keeps that all quiet for you so go here rather than to Good Sam or some other ER that has your verbally explain the situation in ear range of noisy other people.