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Ok_Journalist3388 t1_j9jfrj3 wrote

Definitely don't go to Jersey City Medical Center, unless you want to sit in a crowded waiting room for 5 hours and still not get treatment.

When I need the ER, I go to Manhattan. The Lenox Hill hospital in Greenwich Village is super quiet and the staff are friendly and helpful.

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ErnestGoesToPoop t1_j9js9yl wrote

I had heard this warning from many people before but recently i needed an ER and didn’t have time to go to the city so I ended up at JCMC. I was surprised at how empty the waiting room was and how quick I got seen. The facilities are also pretty clean.

I was becoming doubtful of these bad reviews until i realized it had been 4 hours since I was checked in with little to no contact with a doc. Sitting in a hallway no less

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Economy-Cupcake808 t1_j9kgjfd wrote

Hospital ERs have bad reviews because nobody wants to have to go to an emergency room. There are also a lot of people who go to emergency rooms for non emergency needs. Like obviously those people are gonna have to wait until the people who are dying get treated first

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Ok_Journalist3388 t1_j9l0p6u wrote

This is so wrong on so many levels. There are plenty of ER rooms out there that have competent enough leadership who is able to create a reasonable triage process so that all emergencies dying or otherwise are taken care of appropriately. To leave anyone sitting in a waiting room for 5 hrs without treatment is pure negligence. And blaming bad reviews on people just not liking ERs is lazy.

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_daysofcandy_ t1_j9t0l2n wrote

I wish more people understood some of the factors that play into long waits in the ER instead of looking to get angry in an instant, especially with the struggle of staffing compared to patient volume.

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MsDemiBurch OP t1_j9kzvps wrote

To be fair emergencies take many different forms. Like for example I had 2 bad infections one time when I went to the hospital and I barley had much pain & no fever, so I was treated as I was fine but after tests were done the doctors were freaked out lol. So the er should try their best to treat everyone accordingly if possible but we dont live in perfect world I guess.

But I agree no one wants to deal with the er unless they have to. Unless they are hobos for some reasons lol

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MsDemiBurch OP t1_j9kyuua wrote

Sounds so bad. I'm sorry you had that experience. It's kind of hard expect a super fast hospital experience since it is er but they should be checking in here and there.

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MsDemiBurch OP t1_j9kya4m wrote

I'd love to go to a hospital in NY but my insurance would not allow that sadly and I've never been to JCMC but sounds like maybe the doctors aren't great there as far as what I heard. I been to christ the most here and the experience is similar but the doctors & nurses are very nice there, which I'd just keep going there but it's way too overcrowded which makes me very nervous while being immune compromised.

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mikevago t1_j9lg4g1 wrote

Maybe things have changed in the past few years, but Christ was always chronically understaffed. I had to take my kid there for a severe flu, and while the nurses gave him an IV to hydrate him, he was there for two days and nights and we saw a doctor for maybe a grand total of fifteen minutes. They had one pediatrician who was stretched between pediatrics, maternity, and the ER. Which meant if he was delivering a baby, the emergency room would have to wait and vice versa.

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MsDemiBurch OP t1_j9ln1h4 wrote

Makes sense. It sucks cause if they had maybe bigger hospital and more staff they would be amazing

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