Posted on 08/14/2021 7:32:59 AM PDT by Hojczyk
For most level 1 trauma centers and tertiary care facilities, operating intensive care units at 80 percent to 90 percent capacity is standard — even before the COVID-19 pandemic hit. But the intensity and duration of caring for severely ill patients during the pandemic have presented unique challenges for hospitals.
Becker's spoke with two healthcare leaders in Massachusetts and Florida about ICU capacity challenges, staffing best practices and more. Sound bites of the conversations are below.
Kelly Cullen, executive vice president and COO at Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital: "Tampa General has 146 ICU beds year-round. During normal, non-COVID-19 times, our ICU runs at about 92 percent occupancy since we are the only level 1 trauma center in the area. Very early on in our COVID-19 response, we converted two ICUs to negative-pressure rooms.
Kathryn Hibbert, MD, a pulmonologist and critical care specialist at Boston-based Massachusetts General Hospital
Normally the medical ICU runs very close to capacity, but there are other ICUs that usually have some beds open if we need to send them a spillover patient. During the COVID-19 surge, all of our ICUs were very full, and we were using surge ICUs. So it was both the intensity and the duration that were very atypical."
(Excerpt) Read more at beckershospitalreview.com ...
Is there a financial motive for utilization of ICU beds?
Dallas has no beds left in ICU. Must wait for a child to die before one comes available. Nice.
Bingo .
Yes .
Medicare pays way more with a new China Bioweapon DRG payment add on .
Its called Upcoding which is illegal but the FEDs are ignoring it now fir some reason .. / S
Don’t here anything..every day.. all day long..about abortion clinics being backed up?
No sad stories about how women unable to kill their unborn child?
MO Health website has been listing 15-20% of ICU beds remaining capacity for the past month that I’ve been checking it almost daily. Guess we’re doing pretty good.
Don’t Hear anything..every day.. all day long..about abortion clinics being backed up?
No sad stories about how women unable to kill their unborn child?
We can’t allow these possible covid babies to live!
That why there all racing here and showing up in our ERs .
Charity cases .
These illegals will bankrupt our hospitals .
Not close enough to the BORDER .
“…. all of our ICUs were very full….”
A doctor with decades of education said this.
How can a bed be “very full.” Did they double up? At these really fat people?
This is the best they can do?
I’m sure that’s true. Still doesn’t take away the fact that people are in ICU with little to no beds left.
The medical industry has had a year-and-a-half to create a surge capacity; the capability to surge resources to hot spots should have been the main result of the 15 days blah blah blah. Also, there has been ample time to conduct actual trials on therapeutics such as HCQ, Ivermectin, etc. Instead, what we have still is go home and take a Tylenol. If you think you’re going to die, go die in a hospital. In the meantime, go get vaccinated. Repeatedly.
Are you sure? How many doctors continue their education after graduation? How many merely peruse medical (political) journals for their ongoing education.
If there's one thing I've learned during the Covid scam, it's that doctors are idiots, like everyone else.
“…. all of our ICUs were very full….”
The ICU UNITS are very full. Not the beds.
Not enough lying commies running hospitals
AZ is also doing fine without masks and lockdowns.
https://www.azdhs.gov/covid19/data/index.php#hospital-bed-usage
https://www.azdhs.gov/covid19/data/index.php#confirmed-by-day
https://www.azdhs.gov/covid19/data/index.php#deaths
true .
They dont pay a penny.
These illegals are racing here for Free Healthcare folks that there country wont provide because its too expensive .
Its not just the China bio weapon virus but many have that too which has been untreated which makes them more Sick and needing a ICU too .
Haha...I kinda found that out about 25 years ago..(doctors can be stupid) when a woman doctor I had to see asked me if “I was eating enough dairy.”
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