The data is about acute & ICU beds. What this news article is about is the ER itself and the rate of incoming patients.
I'll see if I can find out about that.
As best I can tell, HCA (24 ERs but 4 closed) is not member of Texas Medical Center but has a hospital at TMC. Memorial Hermann is a member, but it has hospitals across the greater Houston area (19 ERs). [There are a number of other hospitals & ERs. Those are the two mentioned in the article. In addition, Houston has a number of trauma centers at different levels.]
At 5:15PM CST, Friday afternoon, HCA indicated the longest wait time of 11 of its ERs in the Houston metropolitan area was 9 minutes. 4 ERs are temporally closed (to consolidate resources), and another 9 didn't list any wait time (whether 0 or not, I don't know), including the one at TMC.
On a nothing-special day a year and a half ago, I went to the ER with pneumonia. It took about 6 hours (8PM to 2AM) to get a bed in a particular SCC hospital. Thankfully, they weren't busy.
I'll see if I can find out about that.
As best I can tell, HCA (24 ERs but 4 closed) is not member of Texas Medical Center but has a hospital at TMC. Memorial Hermann is a member, but it has hospitals across the greater Houston area (19 ERs). [There are a number of other hospitals & ERs. Those are the two mentioned in the article. In addition, Houston has a number of trauma centers at different levels.]
At 5:15PM CST, Friday afternoon, HCA indicated the longest wait time of 11 of its ERs in the Houston metropolitan area was 9 minutes. 4 ERs are temporally closed (to consolidate resources), and another 9 didn't list any wait time (whether 0 or not, I don't know), including the one at TMC.
On a nothing-special day a year and a half ago, I went to the ER with pneumonia. It took about 6 hours (8PM to 2AM) to get a bed in a particular SCC hospital. Thankfully, they weren't busy.