Fact Based List:

Bottom Five States by Highest Average Emergency Department Patient Wait Times

  1. Utah - 497 minutes
  2. Kansas - 343 minutes
  3. Arizona - 329 minutes
  4. New York - 296 minutes
  5. Mississippi - 296 minutes

Source: Press Ganey: The 2010 Emergency Department Pulse Report
Source URL: http://www.pressganey.com/galleries/default-file/2010_ED_Pul...
Notes: Represents the experiences of1,399,047 patients treated at 1,725 hospitals nationwide between January 1 and December 31, 2008