Submitted by theunknownunknown166 t3_zbvdzm in newhampshire
Do not come to this hospital the wait time is ridiculous. Right now my wife and I have been here for 6 hours. There are other that have been here even longer. One woman took her mother here at 11 am today and is still here
I now your pain I was a nurse as well. It got to stressful now I am an electrician
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As a physician in NH, I can tell you all hospitals in Boston, NH and southern maine are on code help and code divergent. Means they are full and busting at the seams with patients both in the hospital and in the emergency room. This has been the case for the past 4 or so days.
It's hospitals in general. The hospitals are super short staffed and the waits are hours long almost anyplace you go. You generally have a long wait at Concord but it's especially bad right now. Waiting is good,means you aren't at deaths door
The doctors probably have real medical emergencys.if you've been there 6 hours chances are your not a medical emergency.you should have made an appointment to see your PCP.Trust me,the people at snhmc really do care.you don't see ambulances that go in the back all the time.be patient.your number will be called when they are ready for you and your situation.
She subscribes to that health network thing and we already got the diagnosis from them. Unfortunately, we gotta wait till the doctor discharges, her home.
Best of luck.be safe.
Oh I know she’s not a medical emergency. She sprained her ankle really bad but the point is it’s been six hours. It’s a little ridiculous.
Welp, that's why you're waiting.
A sprained ankle equals RICE, maybe NSAIDs(I personally would add G&Ts to that), and then see an urgent care in the morning.
Yeah, we would leave but they’ve already started the process so we can’t go or we get the bill and the insurance don’t pay it is that
Understand where you're coming from. I hope it is just a simple sprained ankle and she heals up quick. I know hobbling around on them are not fun.
Good luck. Hope you all get out of there soon!
SMH.....I thought you actually needed to be at the hospital.........a sprained ankle.......🤦♂️
Sorry your going through this. It’s triage….when I cut off part of my thumb and another time my wife sliced open her foot on a pool tile we got in right away, no wait!
I know the more serious go first. I would not expect a tummy ache to go before a gsw
Isn't this the kind of thing that only happens in countries with universal healthcare?
Or was that a lie being told by the people who are currently getting rich off of our privatized system?
Or, no.
This is an expected wait time on the weekend unfortunately, I've only had 1 ER visit under 2 hours in my entire life and that was a Tuesday afternoon. Lots of sick kids and stuff right now, hopefully everyone is OK.
I think that the combination of RSV, Flu and COVID has hospitals fairly full.
I assume that you are referring to Southern New Hampshire Regional Medical Center, the hospital with a mouthful of a name. Hospitals have to respond to demand and sometimes demand overwhelms their capacity.
Comments like this are one of the leading reasons hospitals are loosing staff left and right. Nobody wants to care for assholes. My wife is an rn and her and every other Healthcare worker we know are burnt out on the disrespect and preventable illnesses going around.
I am not an asshole you moron I am a former nurse myself. Maybe it is comments like this that might bring about change. If nothing is said nothing is done
And also if you checked I never mentioned who was to blame. Maybe instead of trying to be an asshole yourself try to think intelligently
P S have a nice day
Are you saying you don’t wants to be accused of be apart of a great conspiracy to take down their orange god?
Is this the one in Nashua? Haven't been there in ages but last time I was I waited something like 4 hours for a doctor to see the person I drove in and it was empty as hell in the waiting area.
Yes Nashua
There are quit a few people here. Never expected this
Isn’t the capitalist healthcare model great
In a capitalist system, this shortage would cause hospitals to raise their pay and attract more doctors and nurses. But since Medicare and insurance companies decide the reimbursement rates, that can't happen, at least not for as long while until new contracts are negotiated. Since most people get medical coverage through their employer, we can't even have insurance companies competing directly for our business. We may not have fully socialized medicine, but we most definitely do not have a capitalist system either.
Go to Canada and see how quickly you get in. Hell most of Europe has been like this for generations.
It's not really free market. Though does have some of the shortest average wait times so.... not the best example of it's shortcomings.
Issues are more price and accessibility for the poor.
That's just American hospitals on average. Singling out one place ain't accurate.
I know a lot of hospitals in NH are overwhelmed with kids with RSV and no beds are available. The entire hospital system and its staff are under intense pressure between RSV, Flu and Covid.
They’re quitting in droves because they’ve been abused by science deniers/ Trumpers for the past 3 years.
Go to urgent care or Tele Health
Yes I will next time
It has always been that way
6 hrs isn’t that long in what has turned into a place people now go when they don’t feel well.
I remember waiting a long time in the Elliot ER for intense stomach pain. Unfortunately, the ER was my only option because urgent care and PCP won't see you for multi-day stomach pain. Since I wasn't actively dying, I had to wait...
I have chronic pancreatitis. The ER is my ONLY option for treatment when my pancreatitis is bad enough because usually by the time I'm sick enough to need an ER for my pancreatitis I'm at the point where I need IV pain meds, IV fluids and IV nausea meds and chances are I'm probably going to need to be admitted. They can't do iv meds in my doctor's office so my PCP just sends me to the ER. And as soon as urgent care hears that I have a history of pancreatitis they send me to the ER as well when I go to urgent care with abdominal pain complaints so I feel like I can't win
That's weird... I've gone to urgent care for multi-day stomach pain before. Isn't that kinda stuff what they're there for?
They said I would need a CT scan ASAP.
First time going to the er?
As someone who lives in California and follows this subreddit (planning to relocate next year) this is how the hospitals are here too. Both central CA and the bay area. ER visit for non life threatening injuries is about a 10 hour wait. Even for life threatening injuries it's not much better
It’s a compound issue. There aren’t enough PCPs so there isn’t capacity for same day, after hours or even real time medical advice. Then patients, who should be more closely monitored by their PCPs end up in the ED. Those (avoidable) ED patients become soft admits or go into obs but there’s no beds on those floors available.
Right now isn’t the time to be going to the ED for a sprained ankle, there’s not much they can do for you anyways? Is there a reason you chose the ED over urgent care?
I am a former nurse myself. The problem has been there since health care became a business. When you try to change it the corporate world threatens it will get worse. Like giving nurses more money more help better hours. Because healthcare is a business all they care about is the bottom line. And I not even going to get started on health insurance
Exeter Hospital ER is always a mess. Don’t go there if you’re in pain. Doctors are not compassionate.
I would say that exact same thing about Wentworth Douglass and Portsmouth hospital too. Have lost track of the amount of frustrating ER visits Ive had with er Drs with zero compassion. Last time I was at the Portsmouth ER I was there over the summer,chronic pancreatitis flare up and I needed to be admitted and hadn't been able to eat in two weeks. Dr basically refuses to deal with me and said "If you'll excuse me I have actually sick patients to see" within a couple days of that visit I ended up hospitalized in Boston where the Dr said I should've been admitted sooner...it was like ummm I did try to get help
You could drive north in Everett Turnpike to the 93 split, turn around to read the southbound sign hospital current wait time( snap a photo of it )at a Manchester hospital… drive back to snhu, pick up the patient, drive then to the Manchester hospital- wait the 20 minutes and have a lesser wait time! 30 years ago, I waited 5 hours on a Friday night for someone to see my son. Not much has changed. Well, the wait time has…
Could be worse, could be St. Joseph.
Went in there because doctor saw a weird red dot on my back.
St Jo folks said “we’re just gonna take a small skin sample”
Digs all the way down to the bone.
Test results come back: “just a freckle, but we messed up with the stitches so you can never expose your back to sunlight again”
Right. I'm sure that's exactly how it happened.
What did they do with the stitches to make you unable to expose your back to sunlight? Please, share.
Idiot
What? I've had like 10 different skin biopsies and mole removals and I've never heard of that.
Aloha_Snackbar357 t1_iytxx69 wrote
I’m a Hospitalist that works in a NH hospital. Our ED wait time is ridiculous.
There are no beds. None.
Our hospital is operating at 105% capacity. We have patients in the hallways upstairs. Admitted patients, on a medical floor, in a hallway. We’ve had patients in the library before.
Your wait time in the ED isn’t because the staff is inept. It’s because half of the ED is admitted patients waiting to get upstairs (usually overnight). Recently there was a 19:1 patient to nurse ratio in our ED because of shortages and call outs. Every single unit in our hospital is down LNAs and RNs compared to what the staffing matrix should be.
We are doing our best. Please bear with us.