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(33,959 posts)Parkland is the county hospital but Baylor and Parkland share the trauma, with Methodist at 3rd divert and Presbyterian at 4th, so, depending on how busy the city is, any and all ER's can be crazy at any given time. Presby does get a lot of high risk OB patients from outlying hospitals which rarely, but sometimes, will go through the ER. Presby and Baylor do not see an extremely high percentage of young children in the ER since they don't have huge inpatient peds units, but they generally see the ones that are in the vicinities of the hospitals and will generally ship the sickest of them.
The wealthiest patients actually gravitate more to Zale Lipshy and Baylor, although Presby does get their fair share.
Medical City probably gets the highest majority of insured patients as they are the only for profit hospital with an ER in that vicinity. They do not take trauma divert, however, they do take transfers from other facilities.
Parkland has the busiest of the ER's since they do get the majority of the indigent population, which is why Baylor took a heavier share of the trauma.
Just a fun fact. Presbyterian Plano was intentionally built off the beaten path so far because there were no bus stops in the vicinity. They did not want the inner city ER patients coming to the burbs for treatment.