The ambulance bay at Bellevue Hospital. Since St. Vincent's closed, the hospital has seen ER visits rise by 25 percent and ambulance runs increase by about a third.
Nearly six months after the financially challenged St. Vincent’s closed its doors, other emergency rooms are seeing more patients, more ambulance runs and longer wait times.
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