Swamped Clark County ERs ask patients to visit only in ‘true emergency’ By Will Campbell, Columbian Assistant Metro Editor
Published: July 2, 2021, 7:38pm
Share: The PeaceHeath Southwest Medical Center emergency room. (The Columbian files)
Hospital emergency departments are struggling to keep up with an increasing number of patient visits, and they’re asking people to seek help from primary care providers and reserve the emergency room for true emergencies.
At PeaceHealth Southwest, the ER’s monthly visits crept up from an average 167 per day in March to 209 per day in June, according to spokesperson Randy Querin.
“Our medical center (as well as all others in the Pacific Northwest) has been seeing high patient volumes for quite a few weeks, resulting in some longer than typical wait times in the Emergency Department depending on the hour of the day,” Querin wrote in an email to The Columbian. “We
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