Emergency rooms are often busy and crowded — where situations can change in seconds. And experts say Arizona needs more of them. So Dignity Health is opening the first freestanding emergency room in Chandler.

Tim Bricker, president and CEO of Dignity Health Chandler Regional and Mercy Gilbert Medical Centers, joined us to talk about it.

Freestanding ER’s are not just an Arizona phenomenon - they’ve been popping up across the country. For more on that, we turn to Dr. Howard Mell, a practicing ER physician in Ohio, and a spokesman for the American College of Emergency Physicians.