Thanks to our team approach to care, streamlined processes and advanced technology, the average wait time for patients at AAMC’s ED is less than an hour and a half.

“Patients often incorrectly believe that bigger hospitals are better, but that’s not necessarily the case,” says John Pullin, R.N., nurse manager of the ED at AAMC. “Though we have more than 10,000 visits to our ED each year, we’re able to provide quality care significantly faster and in a friendlier setting than you might find at a larger facility.”

Offering shorter wait times to ED patients in a more family-oriented setting isn’t AAMC’s only unique aspect. Here, all nurses on our staff are certified in basic life support and advanced cardiac life support. They have also received additional training and certifications in pediatric and adult life support and trauma nursing. In addition, AAMC’s ED has made it a priority to take small-town emergency care to the next level by obtaining these high-tech advancements: a centralized monitoring system that helps track ED patients as they progress through the hospital for additional tests and procedures. computed tomography (CT) scans that are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, the ability for ED staff to perform electrocardiograms within the unit, rather than waiting for a separate team to perform the tests, and mobile magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

“When a patient leaves our ED, we want them to leave with the feeling that a small-town ED provided the same kind of treatment as a larger facility,” says Pullin. “We want them to see that maybe sometimes you can even have better quality of service at a smaller hospital.”