Here are the 14 hospitals in America with the most annual emergency room visits for fiscal year 2016. Totals represent the amount of emergency room visits tallied for a single facility, rather than total ER visits for a whole health system.
This listing is based on several sources of information and all figures are verified by individual hospitals. Start and end dates for the fiscal year may vary by hospital.
1. Lakeland (Fla.) Regional Medical Center — 217,208
2. Parkland Health and Hospital System (Dallas) — 171,390
3. NYC Health + Hospitals/Lincoln (Bronx, N.Y.) — 163,622
4. St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center (Paterson, N.J.) — 162,635
5. WellStar Kennestone Hospital (Marietta, Ga.) — 144,868
6. Banner Desert Medical Center (Mesa, Ariz.) — 144,512
7. NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County (Brooklyn, N.Y.) — 139,040
8. Erlanger Medical Center (Chattanooga, Tenn.) — 138,740
9. NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst (N.Y.) — 136,643
10. Grady Health System (Atlanta) — 134,049
11. Reading Hospital (West Reading, Pa.) — 133,498
12. Boston Medical Center — 132,148
13. Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak (Mich.) — 130,892
14. Rochester (N.Y.) General Hospital — 130,644
The Urgent Cares here-often send patients to the ER.
It’s cheaper to to go UC! ED is the most expensive care someone could get.
I think urgent care’s should be utilized to fuller extents.