In the state of New York, it’s not supposed to happen. But like everything in the law, at times things happen. For example, if a ER is grossly overwhelmed with patients in the event of a disaster, they can not so much turn you away, send you somewhere else. If an ER knows that they cannot take care of your particular problem. This happens sometimes upstate, a small regional hospital. A patient is coming in and in just horrible respiratory need. What they’re going to be able to do for this patient will not save them. They might shift them somewhere else. But all things being equal, an ER should never turn away a patient.
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