Bayonne, NJ – You’ve probably experienced waiting endlessly in an emergency room. But now a New Jersey hospital is trying to change the image of the over-packed ER by letting you know how long you’ll have to wait to be seen by a doctor.
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Want to know how long your wait will be inside Bayonne Medical Center’s emergency room?
Just check out the billboard on the New Jersey Turnpike or another one placed right in the center of Jersey City’s Journal Square, reports CBS 2’s Christine Sloan.
“Seven minutes seems pretty good to me,” said Mike Rowan of Jersey City, adding when asked if that would make him want to check out the hospital, “Not really. I don’t want to be there if I don’t have to be.”
“Possibly, I might just want to go there just because of that 7 minutes because I know Jersey City Medical Center takes a little bit longer,” one man told WCBS 880 reporter Levon Putney. Continue to read
What’s next? Will they serve fast food as well?
7 minutes is a long time if you’re having an emergency.
If we kicked out all of the illegal aliens, the wait time might be at 0, otherwise known as normal wait time for the ER!
Not a big deal. St Elizabeth hospital in brighton mass (boston) has been doing this billboard shtik for a while. Looks exactly the same except it is usually more like two minutes.
Of course they boast about the 7 minute waiting period. They dont tell you how long it’ll be till you get your test results back from the lab or how long it takes to get a room upstairs. I dont but it.
This is the guy Maimonides threw out !!! What a CHUTZPAH !!!
Is that 7 minutes until they pre-Qualify You ?$?$?$
i think it is brilliant marketing
I think that, because in the end the Feds pay for treatment for uninsured (emergency Medicaid and other such scams) they are TRYING to get primary care patients into their ER.
In Manhattan the quickest Hospital ER is New York Downtown Hospital formerly Beekman Hospital right off the Brooklyn Bridge, you get in and out within 1 hour including x-rays, diagnostics,