Emergency departments post wait times on the web.
The two EDs of Sacred Heart Medical Center in Oregon have been posting their wait times online for several months now, but the introduction of this service didn't come without a great deal of preparation. For example: ED charge nurses at facilities that already had posted wait times online were contacted to see if there had been any problems. A communitywide education effort was put in place to let potential patients know what was coming.
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