More than 40 Texas hospitals face ICU bed shortages

The Hill ^ | 10/19/2021 | MONIQUE BEALS

[ChicagoConservative27]

Hospitals in Texas have reported an increased number of full intensive care units (ICUs) as the delta variant of the coronavirus continues to ravage communities.

According to data released Monday, 42 Texas hospitals reported that their ICU beds were filled to capacity between Oct. 8 and Oct. 14.

The data is released by the federal government's Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on a weekly basis and accounts for about 200 Texas hospitals that have more than four ICU patients or four staffed ICU beds. Other hospitals with smaller ICU departments also reported data to HHS.

[God luvs America]

Yesterday the craphole known as NY, applauded by the criminal liberal media, has 2.5 times the number of cases as Florida and almost twice the numbers of cases as Texas...but the criminal media doesn’t report at much:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

[WMarshal]

Fire them all then because these medical tyrants have had over 500 days to prepare beyond their “two weeks to flatten the curve” propaganda and lies.

Creepy Joe Biden said he had a plan already while he was running for President.

[KierkegaardMAN]

Lies. I have an acquaintance that works as a hospital administrator in San Antonio. Here’s the skinny: they set eight beds aside and label it
the COVID unit. Even though they have three hundred beds they report that they have no more room for Covid patients
once the eight beds are occupied. This is not an isolated case. I’m sure that’s the m.o. nationwide in this orchestrated worldwide hoax.

[nesnah]

Check out the repoterett.

Likely not yet using feminine products.

[God luvs America]

Let me guess- they are housing the people from Oklahoma who overdosed on ivermectin....

[ReaganGeneration2]

“The majority of patients” !?!?

Yep. It went from 99.99% to 51% in a hurry. We are Israel now.

[roving]

Since this thing started, I know of one person who got COVID and that was after she was vaxxed

[Pearls Before Swine]

Since this thing started, I know of one person who got COVID and that was after she was vaxxed

#METOO

In my case, it was a 31 year old son who is pretty sure he picked it up dancing around at a concert. Anyway, he felt crummy for 4 days, then mended over the next week or so. Not too bad. Full disclosure--he had the JNJ vaccine. As, coincidentally, so do both of his parents. Not a choice... it was what was on tap the day we went. And he went to a clinic a thousand miles from us.

So, I don't know whether to buy the "it's not full protection, but you get a milder case" because of his experience... or not, considering our age difference.

[CFW]

If a hospital doesn't have a certain number of nurses, techs, respiratory therapists, etc per so many bed units, then that reduces the number of "beds available".

So if they have 100 physical beds in the hospital and staffing for all, and have 80 patients, they are at 80% capacity. But if on the following day they have the same number of patients, but staff sufficient for only 80 beds, they are at 100 percent capacity.

These scary stories are just that, to scare the public. It's all to set a narrative.

[Little Pig]

Maybe they would free up some of those beds if they got rid of all the mannequins they have occupying them?

[ChuckHam]

This is total BS and to say the least it is Berlin_Freeper level propaganda.

BINGO

[mom.mom]

“...as the delta variant of the coronavirus continues to ravage communities.”

What happened to Covid 19? It’s gone?

[Sacajaweau]

https://www.benefitspro.com/2021/08/12/10-states-where-covid-19-has-filled-the-hospital-icu-beds-412-119893/?slreturn=20210919201409

[voicereason]

It’s staff shortages, etc. Let’s see the death numbers. So sick of this.

The other problem is that most people probably don't realize that only about 10-12% of the beds are ICU beds; spread out across the various wards in a hospital. But the low-information voter, and Karen types, just suck up the fear porn.

[ridesthemiles]

The have beds-—

BUT—They DO NOT have enough staff to use ALL of the beds they have.

A BIG DIFFERENCE

[rlmorel]

I have tried to explain this to people.

You cannot have a ICU with very expensive equipment, highly paid staff, staffing levels of doctors, surgeons, specialized nurses, respiratory therapists, you name it....you cannot operate an ICU like that at 50% occupancy rates.

They have to plan things to have those filled as much as possible, but to have some space always to admit new patients to it. It is very much a tightrope. Too few patients, you lose money for lack of services rendered while at the same time paying very expensive staff. You can’t have them sitting on their hands.

Too many patients, and you have to send patients to other facilities if there is a bad confluence of events (full moon, lots of auto accidents, etc) surgeries have to be cut back, things like that.

I don’t recall exactly what the optimum range is, but I seem to think it was in the 85-90% range. (someone here might know the number)

It sounds like a cold analysis and some people don’t like hearing it, but a hospital has to be run like a business where possible. Just because you do that and attempt to be profitable doesn’t mean you have to treat people like widgets. And good hospitals don’t.

A well run hospital, properly staffed with the right mix of patients, employing technology that improves the care of the patient (and the quality of life of the staff working there) allows that hospital to hire good talent, stay abreast of technology, and roll money back in, all of which improves the entire environment beginning with better outcomes, happier patients, stable staff, and pleasant facilities which can be kept clean, modern, and up to date.

It can and does happen. But a detail like finding the “sweet spot” of occupancy rate for your available beds is a conscious effort with many metrics being measured to try to hit that spot.

[EastTexasTraveler]

B.S.