Emergency rooms fill up during busy July Fourth weekend

WOODRUFF - Northwoods emergency rooms needed extra help over the Fourth of July holiday.

Patient numbers went up about 30 percent over an average summer weekend at area Ministry Medical Group hospitals.

Ministry's four area hospitals all saw more patients than normal. Between Howard Young Medical Center in Woodruff, St. Mary's in Rhinelander, Eagle River Memorial and Sacred Heart in Tomahawk, doctors treated 623 patients in the ER. Howard Young Medical Center treated 222 patients alone.

Full story: WJFW

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