Only One Illinois Hospital Makes ‘Shortest Emergency Room Wait Time’ List
You can't always plan an emergency, but if could, you would definitely want to be at one of the US hospitals with the shortest ER wait times.
How many times have you rushed to the Emergency Room just to sit and wait for hours? Probably more than you wish to count.
Of course, in life threatening cases, ER's can usually find a spot for you, but in your run of the mill emergency... it can take forever!
Personal Injury Law Firm, Bader Scott published this recent list, of the top ten ER's across the country with the shortest wait times and we definitely wish one of them was closer to Rockford.
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There's only one hospital on the list in Illinois, and it's about two and a half hours south of Rockford.
It would be pretty weird to drive that far to go to an Emergency Room... but then again would it? If it meant you'd be in and out in 50 minutes?
The shortest ER wait time in Illinois is at Hopedale Hospital in Hopedale, Illinois, which is about 25 minutes from Peoria.
According to this study, you'll be in and out of their ER in less than an hour.
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Hopedale takes the third place spot across the country, with the speediest ER waiting for us all in Del Norte Colorado. I'm actually not sure how they are getting patients in and out of the ER in 38 minutes, that's super fast!
Most of the hospitals on the list are in the 50-62 minute range. How long did you wait last time you were in the ER?
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