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To which hospital should you take the patient? ?

Your 70 year old patient happens to come to your ambulance and is having a heart attack, but has a history of kidney problems and has had a stroke in the past. There are three hospitals nearby. One hospital is a level 1 trauma center and particularly good with open heart surgery, performing catherizations, and all forms of heat procedures and it is 5 minutes away. Another hospital is a level 1 trauma center and also is good with open heart surgeries, catherizations, and performs less invasive techniques for brain hemorrhages and it is ten minutes away. A third hospital is considered the best hospital of the three and is a level 1 trauma center and performs great with open heart surgeries, catherizations and less invasive heart procedures, brain surgeries and less invasive techniques to stop brain hemorrhages and has a kidney transplant team available, but it is 15 minutes away. I like the answers I have gotten to this question. Unfortunately, many healthcare professionals will disagree and pick the third hospitals, depsite it being the furthest away, because it can treat any/all of the patient's problems that may contribute to the patient's condition and because the patient is 70 years old, they will also pick that hospital because they can perform the less invasive techniques.

Public Comments

1. The correct answer is to take them to the closest facility. Once the patient is stabilized, they can request to be transferred and sign papers stating that although they can get the needed care at the facility they are in, they want to be transferred.
2. take the patient to the closest hospital regardless of insurance. when the patient is no longer critical, he can be transferred.