Is the Lancaster General Hospital ER faster than average?

It is faster than 15% of the 4,081 US ERs that report this number. The US median is 2 hours 28 minutes.

3h 29mmedian time
in this ER

Lancaster General Hospital ER wait time

Emergency room · Lancaster, PA

Faster than 15% of US ERs · #3,470 of 4,081

Directions Call PA ranking

1h 01m slower than the US median

This ERPA 3h 08mUS 2h 28m

Left before being seen0%

ER visits a year104,878

555 North Duke Street, Lancaster, PA 17602

(717) 544-5511

Patients sent home from the emergency room at Lancaster General Hospital in Lancaster, Pennsylvania spend a median of 3 hours 29 minutes there, from arrival to leaving. That's 1 hour 1 minute more than the national median of 2 hours 28 minutes, and slower than the Pennsylvania median of 3 hours 8 minutes. 0% of patients left before being seen.

ERs near Lancaster

Penn State Health Lancaster Medical CenterLancaster, PA · 5.4 miFaster than 8% of US ERs3h 51min the ER Wellspan Ephrata Community HospitalEphrata, PA · 12 miFaster than 27% of US ERs3h 04min the ER UPMC LititzLititz, PA · 12 miFaster than 39% of US ERs2h 44min the ER Wellspan Good Samaritan HospitalLebanon, PA · 22 miFaster than 20% of US ERs3h 17min the ER Wellspan York HospitalYork, PA · 25 miFaster than 4% of US ERs4h 14min the ER Reading HospitalWest Reading, PA · 27 miFaster than 9% of US ERs3h 50min the ER Milton S Hershey Medical CenterHershey, PA · 27 miFaster than 4% of US ERs4h 21min the ER UPMC MemorialYork, PA · 30 miFaster than 3% of US ERs4h 26min the ER

Questions

How long is the wait at the Lancaster General Hospital ER?

The median patient who is sent home spends 3 hours 29 minutes in the ER, from arrival to departure (CMS, Oct 2024 to Sep 2025). Half of patients spend longer.

Is that a long wait?

It's longer than the US median of 2 hours 28 minutes. It's faster than 15% of the 4,081 US ERs that report this number.

Where does this data come from?

From CMS Care Compare, measure OP-18b. How this works.

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