The emergency rooms in Aberdeen and Bel Air are crowded these days, even for what’s usually a busy time of year.
“Just waiting for like two hours over there,” James Roark recalled about a recent trip to the ER. “I’m not really in super good health. I have health issues and stuff so I’ve been over there several times to this one [in Aberdeen]. Sometimes I just drive all the way down to Bel Air and that’s not a whole lot faster, but they are bigger.”
“I would say that we’ve seen about a 20-30% increase in our wait times,” Dr. Fermin Barrueto, Senior Vice President/Chief Clinical Officer at University of Maryland Upper Chesapeake Health…