Let’s face it. Kids are always going to be kids and get into things they’re not supposed to get into. Accidents – both large and small – always seem to follow when you have children. It’s all a part of growing up and testing boundaries and learning right from wrong. You can’t totally protect your child from getting into accidents. However, along with affordable health insurance you can choose which children’s hospitals are the best to take them to for the highest level of quality care. The following are just a few of the best emergency care hospitals for children in the country.
- Columbus Children’s Hospital has one of the shortest waiting periods of any hospital around with children who need to be admitted to the hospital for treatment being in their room within 40 minutes. The emergency waiting room area is comfortable, but patients don’t wait long for service with most being seen by a doctor well within 45 minutes of arriving – about half the time normal pediatric ERs offer.
- The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia has a 75-bed emergency department that helps to reduce crowding. The facility offers three decontamination quarters to help safeguard patients in the unlikely event of a bio-terrorism attack.
- Children’s Hospital in Wisconsin has Nurses who automatically are assigned to contact the family of all patients treated in the emergency department to check on their health, answer questions, and review discharge instructions. This makes for much less stress for the family of patients as well as the patients themselves.
- Children’s Mercy Hospitals & Clinics in Kansas City conducts disaster drills twice a month and has found that music and aromatherapy help to reduce stress in the waiting room. Because stress is a factor in many areas of patient recovery, this allows the patients to be around much less stress while they’re recuperating as well.
- The Children’s Hospital in Denver offers the nation’s first pediatric emergency department that specializes in immediately treating the pain of a broken leg by routinely performing nerve blocks. This allows for much less trauma for the child and usually helps to lower a child’s anxieties associated with visiting hospitals.
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