As per a new poll released Monday by the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), majority of emergency physicians say emergency room visits rose in 2014.

In 2014, 28% of physicians said the number of patients to their emergency rooms rose greatly. According to 47% physicians, volume increased somewhat. In 2014, less than half of emergency physicians reported rises in ER visits.

As per data given to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, in Pennsylvania, the average emergency room wait time a patient sees a doctor is 24 minutes. Average wait times can differ throughout the region. Lancaster General’s average wait is 14 minutes. Holy Spirit in Cumberland County has an average wait of 53 minutes.

According to Dr. David Vega, chair of emergency medicine at WellSpan’s York Hospital, his hospital sees tens of thousands more patients in a year. Dr. Vega said that said their department was made in the early 90s.

According to experts, ER was intended to treat about 45,000 patients in a year. In 2014, about 80,000 came to York Hospital. Average wait time of the hospital is 33 minutes, and it is nine minutes above the state and national average.

“The issue of volume in emergency departments is a tricky one because there’s a lot of variability there. But we do anticipate we’re going to see some increase year after year”, said Dr. Veaga.

According to Dr. Vega, more patients are there with access to insurance but there are not sufficient primary care doctors to treat all of them. So that leads to more patients showing up to the ER, even when they likely don’t require ER care. The hospital is in the middle of a renovation project intended at decreasing wait times and improving experiences of patients.