Twin Cities hospitals are increasingly diverting ambulances because their emergency rooms are too full. Last year metro area hospitals reportedly closed their doors about one-thousand times because of too many patients and not enough staff. Dave Feinwachs (FYN-wahks) is General Counsel for the Minnesota Hospital and Health Care Partnership which represents 142 hospitals in Minnesota. He says the practice involves patients who are not in life-threatening situations and who can be safely sent to a neighboring hospital ten to fifteen minutes away.