My wife was pregnant and did not feel well so she ...

My wife was pregnant and did not feel well so she came here for a checkup at the ER she had to wait from 1:30 to almost 8 in the evening to be fully evaluated and discharged and when I spoke with the doctor and asked why it could take this long she said the radiologist and other specialists were busy seeing other more serious cases first. So in other words she said " THIS HOSPITAL IS HEAVILY UNDERSTAFFED" otherwise how can you expect to wait 6-8 hours when you go to the emergency room might as well go to a walk in clinic. I don't reccomend this hospital to anybody they are rude and heavily understaffed they need to hire more people asap and next time if somebody needs to go to the ER I say go in an ambulance you have better chances of getting done sooner otherwise they just take their sweet time and theirs not enough people any way to support the influx of patients pretty soon it will resemble a third world country hospital very sad and disgusting!!! On a side not we used to live in queens ny and Elmhurst hospital was the same way hours and hours of wait to be evaluated and ghetto staff you have to deal with well I feel slowly uconn hospital is becoming a ghetto hospital with a bad reputation just like Elmhurst hospital in queens ny. UCONN hospital please hire more staff to run your hospital I recall a time it wasn't always this way and you would get done within an hour sometimes from the ER. Please hire more STAFF before somebody has a heart attack from stress of waiting and waiting to be evaluated in the ER.