Baton Rouge ER's, Which is Best for What?

OLOL is best for getting shot a second time in the waiting room

If you’re in a true emergency, you don’t get to pick.

If you’re not in a true emergency, go to an urgent care in St. George

OLOL, BR General, and Ochsner are all probably equivalent in competency for most things.

OLOL is usually going to be more capable for severe trauma especially head/neurological like gunshot wounds to the head.

General has a reputation for being more capable for severe burn victims.

Fall out of a deer stand and hit your head, go to a trauma center.

Cut your hand and need stitches, go to the urgent care.

You don’t want to pay for a trauma activation if you can prevent it. Not sure what insurance covers, but it’s insanely expensive.

OLOL has more severe trauma resources and is bigger, but you will get med students coming in and poking at you in the ICU.

If not serious, like a cut that needs stitches or potential broken bone the General Mid-City is usually fastest.

Avoid Ochsner O’Neal er. It is horrible. Not sure where those folks were educated.

There is a small OLOL er in Livingston Parish. It is efficient. If one needs admitting they’ll haul by ambulance. I see it has low star rating, but those I’ve known who’ve gone there had no issues. They even diagnosed what Ochsner missed on Ochner’s own X-rays

My husband fell 25+ feet out of a tree. Our best friend is an er nurse and told us to go to OLOL as they're the only Level 1 trauma center in the area. We waited almost 3 hours for a scan and he was triaged in the hall and stitched up with his hand resting on a bed pan. The only reason he was finally taken for imagining is because the radiology tech pitched a fit that he might have internal bleeding. When we finally saw the doctor, he scolded us for not getting there for three hours, that we should've called a helicopter to get him out. Needless to say my husband had some choice words for him.

I go to Oschner in Iberville. Never much of a wait and they can run most of the tests.

Can't tell you which to go to but having had a stay at the General, beware of their nurses, as apparently they specialize in maximizing the pain one can recieve in even the most simple tasks. For example, I've had them destroy my arm trying to get a simple IV in - complete with digging around to try and find the vein they missed repeatedly. During a blood draw - a routine, basic blood draw - one of them not only managed to miss the vein but to get the needle fricking STUCK! I don't even know wtf it was stuck in / to, just that shite hurt like hell and it took quite a bit before she could get it out.

I've been on this rock for half a century and been in various hospitals a number of times but never experienced such incompetence in such routine procedures as with the General.

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I'm told that some hospitals, ER's and trauma centers are better equipped for different situations.

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OLOL is the regions only Level 1 trauma center which is the most severe capability.

CSB, many yrs ago my BIL got shot in the head down in a southern LA swamp town. He was airlifted to the old Charity Hospital in NOLA. When we got to the hopital from BTR we met his wife and she said they were fortunate that he was brought there because his surgeon was national expert on gunshot wounds to the head...