Posted on 12/13/2020 5:44:10 AM PST by Hojczyk
Even in areas that have recently posted huge surges in positive COVID tests, the numbers were largely similar to the national average: In New York, 76% of hospital beds (and 61% of ICU beds) were taken.
In California, where positive test results have skyrocketed, 76% of inpatient beds were likewise filled (though the ICU numbers were notably higher than New York's, at 79%).
Ohio, which has also seen a surge in positive tests over the last few months, has 71% of inpatient beds taken, and 77% of ICU beds.
Those numbers are not far out of line with national average occupancy rates seen in normal times and are, in some cases, lower than what are widely considered optimal rates.
'We are not in crisis care'
Dr. Joanne Roberts, the chief value officer of Providence St. Joseph Health system, told Just the News that "a well-functioning hospital probably runs about 85% capacity on an average day."
The problem, she pointed out, is that a virus like COVID-19 can "quickly overwhelm that last 15%" due to its virulency and ability to send a significant number of patients to the hospital at once.
Roberts, who coordinates the chief medical officers of Providence St. Joseph's 51 constituent hospitals across seven states, said her system has been working creatively to address spikes in patients.
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Piss off punk. You have no respect for a lady that died at 89 but your smartassed remarks. Go the hell away punk. You DESERVE the language I gave you. She didn’t deserve your foul mouth comments.
Gosh, better re-activate those hospital ships, right?
Oh and yeah, your a great warrior. You know nothing but toy guns and tanks. You use LT as your handle here. You must be a lifetime play lieutenant if that is the best you could do. Old. Yeah, I am old. But I did my years on this earth. Punks like you will go to hell and no one will care.
More fear mongering by the media/gov. Look at statistics, average between 1980 and 2017 is 66%, in 1975 and 1980 it was 77%. Covid must have been hell in the late 70’s!
Medicare hospital rates are set based on what it should cost an efficient hospital to provide a DRG class of service.
Why reinvent the hospital care pricing wheel(when the hospitals are not prepared to break themselves up)?
The key to lowering hospital costs is to do away with the need for well-paid hospital administrators by making hospital service units small enough to be run by the doctors and nurses themselves.
I went to college with pre-meds and I found them to be smart people.
...data has also shown that between 2000 and 2005, national ICU occupancy rates ranged from 65% and 68% (1). In 2010, the average national ICU occupancy rate was 66%...
So yes, ICUs running in the 70% capacity range is a bump up.
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Even without COVID, we should expect the occupancy rate to trend up along with the average age of the population, after statistical adjustment for any changes in hospital investment and doctor licensing. So the increase may not be due to that virus.
I've worked for people with accounting degrees and hate it. The majority are very linear in their thinking. all the little boxes have to line up.
Engineers would be next.
Hence why people are diagnosed with having died with COVID. They get more money for that.
Look at NC— the demrat Gov put the state on mandatory mask indoors and outdoors, and curfew at 10 PM for:
as of 12/12/2020:
Inpatient bed occupancy (for anything) 77%
Inpatient bed occupancy for Covid 8.06%
ICU bed occupancy (for anything) 79%
Based on the 95% known false positive PCR test for “covid”.
Lunacy.
The author is an idiot. There’s no doubt there’s a hospital problem due to staff being out sick. Staff is sick because the cases are spiking. Why do some rally around stupid articles like this?
You are 100% correct. Just watch.
The author is an idiot. There’s no doubt there’s a hospital problem due to staff being out sick. Staff is sick because the cases are spiking.
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If anyone is an idiot, it’s you. The “cases” are seldom real. Everytime a staffer tests positive with no symptoms and, the staffer is quarantined. This is happening all over, especially in nursing homes. I’ve seen the reports.
True, the staff isn’t necessarily sick. Just quarantined.
We had a civil engineer ...he was worthless in the field....probably would have been all right doing paper work..
https://medium.com/incerto/the-intellectual-yet-idiot-13211e2d0577
https://www.mergersandinquisitions.com/how-to-beat-the-intellectual-yet-idiot/
A lot of smart people are IYI
The Intellectual Yet Idiot
Education: Almost always attend “elite universities,” such as the Ivy League or Oxbridge. NOTE: Most students at these schools are not IYIs, but a decent percentage qualify.
Industries: Tend to have experience mostly in academia, the government, “think tanks,” and the mainstream media.
Skin in the Game: None. They advocate for or against policies from which they never feel the negative effects, making such advocacy meaningless.
Media: Like The New Yorker and TED talks (ugh).
And we “could” get struck by an asteroid.
Went to play Bingo last nite - won a door prize. Guess what it was. Yup! A mask! I left it there on the table.
What happened to all other viruses 🦠? Diseases ? Regular cold /flu. ? Pneumonia ?
See the scam now ?
Covid 19 is a communist world takeover plot. Plain and simple
Watch the Davos crowd talk about the GREAT RESET. if you doubt this
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