Pittsburgh Tuesday wait is 61 min. Every other day this site sits at roughly 22 min.
That's a 39.5-minute gap on Tuesdays — concentrated at the 11:00–12:00 check-in band.
The synth cause is a template default that over-books the Tuesday 11am slot. Real-world Pittsburgh
specialty hospitals see this same pattern after a board-certified hire whose Tuesday block was
replicated from a different rotation. The fix is redistribute the block across Wednesday and Thursday
and free a 30-minute mid-morning gap; that recovers roughly
$24.1K
of revenue across the window at a conservative 5% bail-rate × $385 specialty consult fee.
network avg wait
29m
visit-weighted
worst (hospital, DOW)
61m
Riverbend Specialty Pittsburgh · Tue
Pittsburgh Tue gap
+39.5m
vs Pittsburgh mean
recoverable revenue
$24.1K
if Pgh Tue → Pgh mean
Wait minutes by hospital × day-of-week
| Hospital | Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Riverbend Emergency Cleveland | 32m 926 | 31m 935 | 32m 926 | 32m 939 | 31m 928 | 32m 903 | 31m 893 |
| Riverbend Specialty Akron | 21m 49 | 22m 185 | 21m 186 | 21m 186 | 21m 191 | 21m 164 | 22m 41 |
| Riverbend Specialty Pittsburgh Tue outlier | 22m 502 | 21m 1,260 | 61m 1,251 | 21m 1,258 | 21m 1,270 | 22m 1,241 | 22m 485 |
| Riverbend Urgent Care Columbus | 29m 1,335 | 28m 1,333 | 28m 1,315 | 29m 1,316 | 29m 1,317 | 28m 1,277 | 29m 1,303 |
Per-hospital biggest-day gap (worst DOW vs own mean)
| Hospital | Worst day | That day's wait | Site mean | Gap | Visits that day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Riverbend Specialty Pittsburgh | Tue | 61m | 27m | +34m | 1,251 |
| Riverbend Specialty Akron | Mon | 22m | 21m | +1m | 185 |
| Riverbend Emergency Cleveland | Sun | 32m | 32m | +0m | 926 |
| Riverbend Urgent Care Columbus | Sun | 29m | 29m | +0m | 1,335 |
What this looks like in your stack today.
Wait-time-by-day-of-week is a basic operational chart but it lives nowhere in most PMSes by default.
Cornerstone and AVImark have wait-tracking fields that are inconsistently populated; ezyVet exposes
them via API only. BluWave/Reflexion publish weekly aggregates that wash out day-of-week patterns.
The query here joins
visits.wait_minutes against
strftime('%w', visit_date) and averages by (hospital × day-of-week) — port it to your own warehouse
in an afternoon.
Cited context. The specialty-consult fee ($385) is anchored to the AAHA Veterinary Fee Reference (11th ed.), the exam line alone. The 5% bail-rate at long waits is a Central Uplift estimate (no public veterinary bail-rate benchmark exists). Measure-only: the recommendation is a scheduling-template change the operator makes. Press Q for the query.