William Beaumont Army Medical Center now has a Quick Care Clinic. After ER patients are triaged, those with non-life-threatening injuries are moved into the Quick Care Clinic. Physician assistants and nurse practitioner tend to injuries such as broken arms, sprained ankles and respiratory infections.

“They saw me really quick. They asked for my identification. They called me in to check my stats, and they called me back here really quickly. It wasn't a long wait at all," said Debra Romero.

Hospital officials say some 170 people find themselves at Beaumont's emergency room every day. About half of those patients are now being sent to the Quick Care Clinic.

“From the patients' perspective, that way they are not waiting around in an emergency room for five hours. We can get them seen, and get them back home," said Dr. Bruce Adams.

According to Dr. Adams, the medical center has been able to cut a patient's average emergency room wait time in half. “Because we can see the minor injuries and illnesses quicker than in the main emergency room, it leaves the emergency nurses and physicians the time to really devout that patient care time necessary to those who are critically injured and ill “, said Army Captain Audrey Richert.