I hear NY retirement homes have some empty beds. Surely andy won’t mind.
St. Louis area hospitals at 85-90% capacity...
“Build it and they will come.”
DEAL with it. Life has to go on.
Mortality from the Chinese virus continues to go way down.
St. Louis area hospitals at 85-90% capacity “of the hospital rooms set aside for Covid 19” due to pandemic.
There, fixed it.
What was capacity utilization in October 2019? What is normal capacity utilization?
Okay....once again for those of you in Rio Linda:
Hospitals scale their available beds to demand for purely economic reasons. It makes no economic sense for them to keep 25 ICU units up and running if they almost never use more than ten.
Most of them are prepared to ramp-up quickly if a situation arises. 85% capacity today could easily be 40% tomorrow after a few phone calls.
My daughter is an ICU nurse so I’ve been educated about this a bit.
I suspect everyone over 50 who caught the flu probably ran to the hospital in a panic.
All they have to do is ASK for federal help.
I would think most hospitals with an 85-90% capacity would see that as a God send, especially if they had been experiencing lower numbers in the past. You have to keep the beds filled if they are to operate at a profit.
I have heard stories about doctor owned hospitals that intentionally admitted folks that would have been sent home had the beds been filled already. They like to keep the beds filled. All of them.
The only thing concerning to me with 90% of the beds having someone in it, is that the person in it actually needed to be in it, and that they’re not just put there to scam the insurance companies.
https://protect-public.hhs.gov/pages/hospital-capacity
Estimated nationwide hospital utilization rates, including for WuFlu.
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Headlines in AZ:
Coronavirus in Arizona is spreading at its fastest rate since June. Here’s what we know
ASU experts say Arizona is now in a COVID-19 surge
Arizona reports 994 new coronavirus cases, 5 more deaths
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Facts in AZ:
Lancet sept 2020
“COVID-19 is not a pandemic. It is a syndemic“
How many of these are non-Chyna virus related
How many were surgeries put off?
uh...what is their normal occupancy? I bet it is normally at least 85%.
So I guess this means we can expect to see the endless stream of dancing nurses on videos like we did during the first time the hospitals were “overflowing” Yawn...
How many folks are in hospital for long overdue procedures.?
85% occupancy doesn’t sound very high to me. Hospitals don’t make money without patients.
Word I hear is that healthcare workers are leaving because they don’t like the pay and hours generally.