Rhode Island tied with Massachusetts for the third-longest average emergency room wait time in the U.S., according to Becker’s Hospital Review, a healthcare news publication based in Chicago.
Patients in the Ocean State spend an average of 220 minutes, or three hours and 40 minutes, waiting in ERs, according to the collected data.
The average wait times were calculated from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services “Timely and Effective Care” dataset, which compiled figures from hospitals in 2024 and published the findings in November 2025…