And unfortunately, if you end up dying as a result of the delay in care caused by the extra distance, they’ll probably label your cause of death as “COVID related”.
During our first peak here in Japan (March? April?) we had those, too. COVID only. They were guarded and locked down like Ft Knox. Straight out of the movie “Outbreak.”
Living in E.Tenn. Several community hospitals have closed, and it is not unusual to live >1hr. From closest hospital, Be thankful you have many in a 30’ radius. I assume it has been a system decision to put all the COVID peas in one pod
Just get a symptomatic COVID sufferer to sneeze on you.
If I ran a hospital, this would be a good business decision. Terrible moral decision, but excellent business decision.
Are hospitals, doctors, coroners, etc., still getting paid big bucks for calling everything covid case or covid death?
That was a scandal of monumental proportions that nobody seemed interested in looking into.
Maybe this time they should.
Crazy. And artificial.
Another FReeper posted about 2 weeks ago that he or she works in a hospital which has come up with the ingenious scheme of taking in mildly ill people who may have tested positive but otherwise would never have been hospitalized, putting them on the floor and then moving them to ICU at night so they can stay in for a few hours past midnight and thus be declared overnight ICU patients.
Best wishes and prayers for your treatment. I’ve heard of so many people to whom this has happened.
at my hospital we do have mixed floors...some covid, some other stuff..
the problem is not the number of beds, its the lack of staff....
and also a huge problem is we have almost permanent patients...families dump them and won't take them back home, perhaps they can't, but no nursing home is going to take dementia patients who need 24/7 close supervision sometimes not even the locked down dementia units...very very expensive care ....thus, we have many patients who should not be in the hospital, taking up beds for months and months...
Over half of the hospital beds in Cook county are empty.
About 8,400 people in hospitals total, 2,400 are Covid.
I’m too lazy to shorten the link:
Local health officials have had nine months to add beds and staff.
“So I guess this means if either of use is having a heart attack we have to go to another hospital in network that is ever farther from home.”
If you are having a heart attack or need emergency care, the ER will treat, stabilize and transfer you to another facility.
On the bright side, if you catch COVID, you don’t have far to travel
I work in several hospitals. All of the hospitals in my area are basically full due to COVID, although the people dying of it frees up beds (close to 3,000 deaths today in the U.S.).
In that situation it makes sense to segregate COVID people in one hospital and non-COVID in another, to reduce infection risk.
The real surge will be hitting end of December through January. In a lot of places you’ll likely just be out of luck if you have a heart attack.