[color="Red"]Hospital emergency rooms all across America are clogged with illegal aliens from mud countries. Many American hospitals along the mexican have had to close their doors because of the undo financial hardship of having to supply free medical care to illegals.
Now, it’s just not hospitals along the boarder that are suffering, it’s nearly every hospital in the entire country.

If you really want to know what’s going on, I urge the reader to stop by his/her local hospital and take a look at who’s in the ER waiting area.

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Hospitals, MDs addressing long wait time

CHICAGO - Beatrice Vance died of a heart attack. The coroner says waiting in the emergency room helped kill her.

The 49-year-old woman's chest was tight with pain when she walked into the ER at Vista East Medical Center in Waukegan last July. A blood clot had lodged in her heart.

It was 10:15 p.m. when Vance checked in, a coroner's report shows. But she was told to wait for a doctor. So she sat and waited. And waited. And then at 12:25 a.m., she collapsed, her heart starved of blood flow.

Doctors rushed to treat her, but she had no pulse. It was too late.

Her wait, the coroner said, lasted two hours and 10 minutes.

Even when the consequences aren't so tragic, time seems to pass at an excruciatingly slow pace when you're waiting for medical care.

Whether it's emergency room treatment, a routine doctor's appointment, or those anxious days between getting poked and prodded for medical tests and receiving the results, waiting happens to just about everyone seeking medical care. It's often one of the most frustrating parts about seeing the doctor.

After years of overcrowding, overbooking, and angry patient complaints, many hospitals and doctors' offices are finally doing something about those waits:

Providing test results quickly onsite or online. Offering same-day exams to patients who call early. Speeding up emergency-room triage to get patients faster treatment. And offering restaurant-style pagers so not-so-sick patients don't feel stuck in a crowded emergency waiting room.

Shortening waiting times is part of a nationwide move toward empowering patients, reducing medical errors and improving health care, said Frank Federico, a director of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. The nonprofit group helps doctors and hospitals devise solutions.

When patients are ill, "the longer that they have to wait to get into the system, the greater the chance" their sickness will worsen, too, said Sue Gullo, a nurse and also an IHI director.

"That's a huge problem," Gullo said, because it puts patients' health at risk and costs hospitals more in resources and dollars.

Gullo knows the experience from both sides.

She used to work in a hospital maternity center and often faced the wrath of women who arrived for a scheduled Caesarean section only to learn they'd have to wait so emergency cases could go first.

"It was very frustrating, any one of us knew we could be a patient tomorrow," Gullo said.

And then she was, arriving in the emergency room one day with a broken leg after slipping on ice.

"It was overburdened. I ended up in a hallway without a stretcher" for more than an hour, she said. "I was sick to my stomach, I had to yell to get anything that I needed."

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