In my city, we have two of everything if not more. We have a strange competition going on between two systems along with a few other players. The city near us has less than 300,000 people in it.
We have at least two...
- Level I trauma centers
- Level II trauma centers
- Pediatric hospitals
- Helicopter services
- Hospital-based mobile ICU services
- Stroke Centers
- Psychiatric units (the two largest in our state is in our city and that's because one of the rivals recently expanded to surpass the size of the other hospital system)
- Chest pain centers
- Cath labs (4+)
- Robotic surgery
- Peds psych (people hours away try to send their kids to the lock down psych unit)
- Cancer centers
- Senior ERs
Some of the places are the same hospital. Within 10 minutes of the city, we have 8 hospitals. On the outside within 1 hour, we have at least 7 hospitals (I keep on forgetting some of them).
It kind of feels ridiculous given the size of our city. The larger cities have less than half the number of hospitals we have. I think my city is spoiled. It's not like we're the state capital of our state. We're not.
Also, remember, that's the things that I can think of off the top of my head. There are other stuff that the hospitals try to pride themselves on. So what type of servicesa are offered in your area? Do you guys feel like there could be an excess in the number of hospitals in the area?
stewartfamily2010
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I live in a small community with only 1 hospital in the entire county. Anything major (and even not so major) gets mediflighted out.