The scheduled time of arrival, 9:06 a.m., came and went, with no sign of the airliner. As the minutes ticked by, a slight feeling of tension invaded the waiting room. Children fidgeted.

In B.C., the shortest ER waiting time was at Providence Health’s Mount Saint Joseph Hospital in Vancouver (a median wait of two hours and 54 minutes), said the report.

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New Jersey's average wait time at the emergency room, according to the study, is only two minutes more than Delaware's average. The average wait time nationally is two hours and five minutes.