Posted on 12/12/2021 10:40:16 AM PST by SeekAndFind
As hospitals face capacity constraints - including firing thousands of workers who refuse to comply with Biden's illegal directive and get jabbed - amid a COVID-19 surge, some states have enlisted the National Guard to help staff healthcare facilities, Becker's Hospital Review reported on December 10.
Indianapolis-based Indiana University Health, the state's largest hospital system, announced Dec. 9 it requested assistance from the National Guard for most of its hospitals (except Riley Children's Hospital). New daily COVID-19 hospitalizations in Indiana have climbed 47% over the last two weeks, according to data tracked by The New York Times.
"As COVID cases continue to increase and hospitalization of COVID and non-COVID patients reach all-time highs, the demand and strain on IU Health's team members, nurses and providers has never been greater," IU Health said in a statement shared with Becker's, "To best support our team members and patients, IU Health will leverage all available resources and enlist members of Indiana's National Guard, in conjunction with the Indiana Department of Health, to assist in areas of critical need."
Six-person National Guard teams with clinical and nonclinical members, will deploy to IU Health hospitals in two-week increments.
In Maine, Gov. Janet Mills announced Dec. 8 that she activated up to 75 additional members of the state National Guard. She said they would be used in nonclinical support roles to expand capacity at healthcare facilities.
Joel Botler, MD, CMO of Portland-based Maine Medical Center, said in a statement Dec. 8 that the state's largest hospital at times this week "has had no critical care beds available." He said the hospital had to close six more operating rooms, in addition to six that were already closed, to free up workers to provide care and create more bed space. About half of surgeries at Maine Medical Center were being rescheduled.
Seventy National Guard members will be deployed in New Hampshire within the next few weeks to provide nonclinical support at hospitals, The New York Times reported Dec. 9. The newspaper reported that Gov. Chris Sununu also said at a news conference that the Federal Emergency Management Agency was sending a 24-person team to help the facilities.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced this month that 120 National Guard troops would be deployed to overburdened nursing homes.
New York officials also announced Dec. 6 that the state would require 32 hospitals with limited capacity to halt nonurgent procedures as COVID-19 cases increase in the state. The state defined limited capacity as below 10 percent staffed bed capacity, or as determined by the health department based on regional and healthcare utilization factors.
New daily COVID-19 hospitalizations in the state have climbed 33 percent over the last two weeks, according to data tracked by The New York Times.
I would have LEAST expected New Hampshire to be on this list. Massachusetts maybe, but not the “Live Free or Die” State.
Increasingly, it looks like the citizens of New Hampshire are preferring DIE over LIVE FREE.
NYS has lost hundreds of 4mploy4es,Ireland with better immunity.
The number of NG coming in as temp replacements is a drop in the bucket.
And per this link, they’re not going to hospitals...
https://www.army.mil/article/252575/ny_national_guard_sends_120_troops_to_bolster_long_term_care
Interesting post—this is classic “robbing Peter to pay Paul”—they created one emergency and now their “emergency action” will cause new ones.
.Gov destroys everything it touches.
There are indeed many in the National Guard with skills useful in a hospital setting. Many of them are first responders or current hospital staff. So pulling them from those positions to fill other positions does not increase the health care workforce overall. It only gives politicians something they can say they did to help alleviate the situation they created. Just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
Beyond insane.
You don’t live in NH, right?
Joe destroys everything government touches
The nation has gone absolutely insane.
“nonclinical support roles” — what the heck are those? How many such roles exist for untrained new staff? Filing out admission forms? Doubtful with today’s complicated coding?
Janitorial work? Washing bedpans? Greeting people?
Government takeover of Healthcare is the plan. Always was. Covid plan provides cover.
Mao’s China did the exact same thing a while back.
“.Gov destroys everything it touches.”
Absolutely right. It is the most pernicious, most voracious power-hungry, most evil force upon the land. The Gov bastards rail against monopolies and threaten investigations, but, by far, the worst monopoly in the country is FedGov. The absolute worst. The bastards have the force of law to steal all of our wealth and destroy the very republic that put them in power.
If the goal is to nationalize healthcare, and reduce it’s quality and availability, then everything they’ve done makes sense.
Any Freeper (slightly off topic):
I got this reply to one of my posts on a different thread to my question as to what AMMV means, as I haven’t got a clue. Below is the exchange, first by Buttons12, followed by my reply to Buttons. So, I’m asking if someone can tell me what AMMV means. Thanks for the assist:
“Buttons12:
You’ve been freeping for 23 years, flaglady47. You know very well what it means.
I will not be replying further. Have a wonderful day
My reply to buttons12 re AMMV:
Actually, I have no idea what YMMV means. Your reticence in telling me what it means indicates to me it is probably an insult of some sort, although I haven’t got a clue. I’ll ask Freepers on a new thread what it means, as you won’t reply. If it’s such a common meaning, according to you, I’m sure a Freeper more knowledgeable than I will tell me its definition.”
the real need is for hands on care, which the NG can not provide....as usual, the non messy jobs get all the glory and the extra help....
Goes to show you, You Just Can't Fix Stupid.
Just think how stupid your average Democrat is. Now realize that half of them are even more stupid than that. —George Carlin
YMMV = Your mileage may vary
Peasants were encouraged to prioritize iron and steel production over agricultural obligations, which contributed to the severity of the Great Chinese Famine. Mao Zedong defended backyard furnaces despite the shortcomings, claiming that the practice showed mass enthusiasm, mass creativity, and mass participation in economic development.
Will the National Guard troops also show "mass enthusiasm, mass creativity, and mass participation in health care development"?
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