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(KSL News) -- A new survey shows Utahns will need to be "patient" patients when they go to an emergency room.
Press Ganey Associates, a company that conducts hospital satisfaction surveys, found the average ER wait time in the U.S. is three point seven hours. The average wait time in Utah is two-hours 44-and-a-half minutes. That's 47th longest out of 49 states listed.
More than two thousand Utahns were surveyed. Iowa and Nebraska had the shortest wait times, around two hours. Arizona and Maryland had the longest by far at nearly five hours.
But analysts added a bit of context by saying rural states have fewer emergency patients. Metropolitan hospitals see more critical patients, which force patients with routine medical problems to wait longer.
