262 Hospitals in LOUISIANA

yep. slaves get money to sit at home

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262 Hospitals in LOUISIANA

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go ahead and define hospital. I bet you cant


If you claim 500 hospitals you can shrink your numbers in half....and so on. Not every hospital is equipped for emergency care. I bet you didnt know that either. So thanks for your data

go ahead and eat my arse.

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go argue semantics and act like that changes any fricking point.

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go argue semantics

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critical care capability is not semantics

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56 + 114 =/= 262

You do understand that not every hospital treats COVID patients and that not every parish in the state has the same capabilities or the same demand.

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56 + 114 =/= 262

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true. but they stand by 262.

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In Louisiana state total 262 hospitals. Out of these 56 are Government hospitals and 118 are private hospitals.

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of course he doesn't. he hasn't the slightest idea what he is talking about

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this is a thread of averages, you should see yourself out. If one hospital is Covid free, they are able to take in more patients than those that are Covid designated. Its an average thing that apparently pisses you off cause it doesn't paint the properly doom and gloom needed for your liking or attention.

Just going to mention that in your 262 “hospitals” you are including psych hospitals, rehab hospitals, LTACHs, and other such specialty hospitals. So subtract all of those first.

For COVID pt, you need negative pressure rooms, which can be quite uncommon in many not brand new hospitals. These are supposed to have ante rooms to keep the pressure constant. I know most hospitals might have 2-4 per 30 rooms of these kind. A bunch of the bigger hospitals dealing with the larger numbers of COVID pts have converted non negative pressure rooms over by changing windows and adding a special machine for airflow, but this is a bit expensive.

Some smaller 20-bed type hospitals might not even have a negative pressure room or some of the rooms may be needed for other patients like ones with tuberculosis or have the settings flipped to positive pressure for a neutropenic precautions patient like hem/onc.

Now add on that these pts have no textbook tried and true treatment plan, so many rural docs would be lost on how to handle these patients. That’s why they transfer them to the bigger hospitals that have spent a lot of effort developing how to treat.

Now it starts to make sense why you can’t just redistribute to 262 “hospitals” that you claim and why most of the cases are concentrated.

At this point it is irrelevant because most of the hospitals are not so packed that they need to “redistribute,” so your plan wouldn’t change anything.



TL;DR:
Remove specialty hospitals from 262, only count negative pressure rooms not in use by other types of patients, and take into account not textbook treatment for rural docs to follow means your plan wouldn’t work. However, plan would make no difference if you did it anyway.