PSA- UNC/Rex Hospital in Holly Springs

[Tatershooter]

Mods, if this is in the wrong place please relocate. Had the oppportunity Sunday night to visit the new UNC/Rex Hospital ER in Holly Springs with my wife. Dropped her off, security guy pushed her in as I parked. When I entered the ER doors he asked me if I had any guns, knives or pepper spray. Heard him ask my wife the same thing as I was getting in my car to go park, so I unloaded firearm, extra mag and knife in the parking lot. Inside the ER, I put everything from my pockets in a tray and walked through a metal detector. So be ware. Not sure about the main entrance.

 

[ronn47]

Hope your wife is OK.

 

[Tatershooter]

Thanks, little knee pain but better today. Tuff getting old🤣

 

[rufrdr]

Thanks for the PSA, good to know. This ER is a lot closer to us than the one in Garner and we're glad it is now open.

 

[noway2]

and walked through a metal detector.

Same thing at the ER at UNC chapel hill. Plenty of other entrances, though, just saying. It’s not as if anyone here would ever carry in an area some bureaucrat says you can’t.

 

[Button Pusher]

When I worked at Rex Hospital 20+ years ago the Security Officers transitioned from unarmed to armed with arresting authority.

 

[jimmyjames8]

Wake Med Raleigh same. I spent Xmas eve in the ER there a year ago. I guess I looked harmless enough. I didnt have to go thru a metal detector or anything but my wife did.

 

[Sleazy P. Martini]

Thanks for the PSA, good to know. This ER is a lot closer to us than the one in Garner and we're glad it is now open.

Yeah, it's practically walking distance for me, so can't complain too much.

 

[fieldgrade]

It’s my understanding that most of our hospitals in the area *could* be considered educational property, due to teaching going on, and carrying on educational property is a felony. Not saying what you should or shouldn’t do. Just know the risk/reward tradeoff.

 

[Chuckman]

Every ED I know of has metal detectors and either security or real police. Most Duke PD are understanding (it is Durham) and are ok with you taking your gun back to your vehicle.

@fieldgrade is correct, if a hospital is part of a university, firearms are verboten.

 

[Edg890]

Every hospital (Wake county) has this policy. We keep a gun bag in the ambulance incase we need to bring a patients firearm with them, than pass it off to hospital security.

 

[Button Pusher]

Every hospital (Wake county) has this policy. We keep a gun bag in the ambulance incase we need to bring a patients firearm with them, than pass it off to hospital security.

Do you or the patient, if able to do so, clear it or just put in in the bag?

 

[Edg890]

Do you or the patient, if able to do so, clear it or just put in in the bag?

Typically I clear it. I’m pretty sure the higher ups said to just stick it in the bag.

If a provider doesn’t feel comfortable they can have PD come do it.

 

[DrScaryGuy]

I used to leave my lab to go visit my mrs in the hospital. fortunately i had my lab to lock up anything i wasn't supposed to have in the hospital (or my lab).
When my uncle had a heart attack, my poor aunt was having trouble trying to dig all the knives out of her purse and eventually just gave up, cleared her person of any metal items, and left her hole bag with the cop at the metal detector. She's a whole lot more gangster than she lets on.