Vermont emergency room wait times

ER wait times › Vermont

Across 11 Vermont hospitals that report the measure, the median emergency department visit lasts 2 hr 55 min — 25 min longer than the national median of 2 hr 30 min. The shortest is Grace Cottage Hospital at 1 hr 47 min.

Medians over a full year, for patients treated and discharged rather than admitted. Busy hospitals treat sicker patients, so a longer wait is not by itself a mark against a hospital. How this measure works.

#	Hospital	City	Median wait	Left before seen	ER volume	CMS rating
1	Grace Cottage Hospital	Townshend	1 hr 47 min	1%	low	—
2	Copley Hospital	Morrisville	2 hr 12 min	—	—	2/5
3	Central Vermont Medical Center	Barre	2 hr 48 min	2%	medium	3/5
4	Central Vermont Medical Center	Graniteville-East Barre	2 hr 48 min	2%	medium	3/5
5	Brattleboro Memorial Hospital	Brattleboro	2 hr 51 min	4%	low	3/5
6	Northwestern Medical Center INC	St Albans	2 hr 55 min	1%	medium	4/5
7	Northwestern Medical Center	St Albans	2 hr 55 min	1%	medium	4/5
8	Porter Hospital, INC	Middlebury	2 hr 56 min	—	—	3/5
9	Rutland Regional Medical Center	Rutland	3 hr 10 min	2%	medium	3/5
10	Southwestern Vermont Medical Center	Bennington	3 hr 22 min	4%	medium	3/5
11	Fletcher Allen Hospital of Vermont	Burlington	4 hr 19 min	3%	very high	4/5

Source: CMS measure OP_18b, published July 2026. Hospitals with too few cases to report are not listed here; they still have a page in the Vermont directory. Not affiliated with CMS. For a medical emergency, call 911.