I just finished reading a message concerning the elimination of the ER at Carson Tahoe Hospital.\u00a0 What I see as a problem are people who are using the current ER as an urgent care.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Instead of eliminating the ER, those who require urgent care services need to be properly advised where to go to get those type of services.<\/p>\n
Those who need urgent care rather than ER services are cared for like everyone who enters the ER, while those who actually need the ER services are put in a line behind all the others who should be directed elsewhere.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
For instance, my husband\u2019s appendix ruptured.\u00a0 He sat in the waiting room for hours, and then in the exam room for hours.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Trying to care for everyone as one group doesn\u2019t work.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
There is a need for an ER; another example is I fell and hit my head, and because I\u2019m on blood thinners, I had to be seen.\u00a0 I went to an urgent care and was advised I had to go to the ER because of my age.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not going to do me much good in the future to have no close ER to go to.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
There has to be an ER for people who need that service, and having to drive to Reno or Gardnerville does not serve the residents of this community.<\/p>\n
Melinda Cash, Carson Valley <\/p>\n
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