Emergency Care Facilities By: Natalie, Maggie, and Ashley

Patient Description

Victims of accidents or sudden illness Patients will visit the emergency room

if they experience… fevers, burns, frostbite, infections, strokes, poisoning, sprains, smoke inhalation, shock, breaks, and wounds

Services Provided

There are many services provided such as…shots, cat scans, stitches, surgery, x- rays, CPR

The hospital provides an ambulance, a rescue squad, first aid squad, and CPR squad

Cost

An ambulance usually cost around $944 To visit the emergency room will cost

around $1,265 with you paying around $569

An overnight stay will cost around $1000 A physician will get paid around 100,000-

200,000

Type of Employees

EMTs Surgeons Nurses Emergency physicians

Misc.

In 1996 an emergency room visit cost $383

27% of visits to the hospital are children

An average visit will take around 3.2 hours

There are different levels of seriousness

(1 being not so serious & 5 being very serious)