California based health care- communal emergency rooms (wages, Nebraska, states)

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I ate something that was not good for me and went to go to the ER at Dignity Health which is a California based health care non-profit system.

I couldn't believe that the new California approach to healthcare is to have a communal treatment rooms in the lobbies.

Basically, the new "California model" is no triage back to private room like most states. They just conduct the treatment in the emergency room.

Since people with infectious disease sit next to elderly who sometimes have weakened immune systems, they make it easy to spread viruses.

If one needs a test they just put them on a stretcher and wheel them back for EKG, Cat-scans, X-rays etc and wheel them back to a communal area at the entrance to the hospital.

I was in a hospital once in Omaha, Nebraska at Nebraska Medical Center and they didn't even have an emergency waiting room. Instantly, back to a beautiful large room with one's own personal nurse.

I have also been in the hospital in Colorado and large private room that was the size of a studio apartment.

The one thing that I think is interesting is the healthcare system is based in San Francisco where nurses wages are several times higher then middle-America but it seems they make do with basically one-quarter of the nurses.