I learned the same a couple weeks ago with my daughter. I hope we never need an ambulance because I don’t want to go to the closer hospital - I’d rather drive the extra 5 mins. the other direction and go to that one!!! Unless I was literally having a heart attack or REALLY couldn’t breathe I would go the extra distance... no kidding.
Heh.. I have had sooo many bad experiences at our local “hospital” and I use that term loosely. I reallllly want to be able to say something good about them, but I can’t. It’s one nightmare experience after another, just starting with the apathetic personalities of most of the employees there, then we go on to the emergency rooms, no excuse for blood on the trays from someone before us, trash on the floor, etc... If it was a hospital in the middle of Detroit, that might fly, but I just see no excuse for it here, especially when we go to the hospital hr. and half away, and it is spotless, you are checked on constantly, things run on time, etc. etc. etc.....