Kind of an interesting side note to the Doc in a Box aspect to your note…
I guess we got very lucky in my community. We have two FSED near me; but both of them are run by the local hospital group, and are part of their insurance systems. One of them appears to be basically holding at that minor emergency room/ advanced urgent care level (although the same hospital group offers several urgent cares in the same area). The other one appears to be being built up into a full fledged hospital surprisingly quickly; it started out as an FSED, and it’s now got full imaging and blood work labs, a surgical center, several specialist practices, and a very small hospital ward. They are supposed to be building more hospital space and upgrading to a mid-level hospital within the next two years. Since they have 30 more acres at the site… it kind of feels like they always had this open as a possibility and just built the ER first since it is what was most needed in the area.
