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re: Hospital overload in Louisiana is it COVID or is it pent up elective surgery demand?
Posted on 7/24/20 at 8:56 pm to MrLSU
Posted on 7/24/20 at 8:56 pm to MrLSU
Depends on the facility.
OLOL is all Covid all the time and doesn’t have enough staff to fill the beds in the facility.
General? They don’t seem to have any Covid patients.
OLOL is all Covid all the time and doesn’t have enough staff to fill the beds in the facility.
General? They don’t seem to have any Covid patients.
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Posted on 7/24/20 at 8:57 pm to Tigerfan1274
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There were 345 COVID patients in the Baton Rouge Region on April 23 and today there is 219.
OLOL is as full as April. General and Oschner are more full than June, but much less than April.
Many of the current covid patients are Medicaid and no insurance. OLOL specializes in these patients thanks to Jindal.
This post was edited on 7/25/20 at 7:37 am
Posted on 7/24/20 at 9:00 pm to Tigerfan1274
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How is that? There were 345 COVID patients in the Baton Rouge Region on April 23 and today there is 219.
I really want to understand too. Especially when we had 2,100 COVID hospitalizations in April and 1,600 today
How are we overloaded with 500 less patients???
Posted on 7/24/20 at 9:01 pm to Shaun176
The quality of patients coming out of NBR are why The Earl and General Midcity gave way to OLOL.
Posted on 7/24/20 at 9:03 pm to MrLSU
There's a whole lot of bullshite being spewed by hospital execs in regards to capacity and being overwhelmed. Like the head doc/CEO at a North Alabama hospital who has stated a 10% hospitalization rate. The second time she said it, I ran the numbers. It wasn't 10%. It was 7.85%. That 2.15% represented 294 hospitalizations, or nearly 300 beds.
That is more than double the beds her hospital even has.
Currently in Alabama, using the 14 day numbers, the hospitalization rate is 6.6%.
That is more than double the beds her hospital even has.
Currently in Alabama, using the 14 day numbers, the hospitalization rate is 6.6%.
This post was edited on 7/24/20 at 9:04 pm
Posted on 7/24/20 at 9:09 pm to MrLSU
The doctor yesterday said it was pent up demand. But JBE has spun it how he wants it.
Posted on 7/24/20 at 9:12 pm to TDFreak
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How are we overloaded with 500 less patients
It’s really simple, we are still doing outpatient procedures. And apparently the lake is still too. So you have a heart cath, endoscopy, simple surgery, even though you may leave the same day they still take up beds. Accommodations have been made for these patients in alternative areas because where they typically would recover are now Covid units.
Posted on 7/24/20 at 9:15 pm to MrLSU
Sorry, but it’s both. There was a significant amount of time when “elective” and “time sensitive” were lumped together and not well defined. Many patients and doctors postponed non-urgent, but time sensitive procedures during the initial pandemic chaos. However, those procedures eventually need to get done (For example, cancer related procedures are not emergent but can’t wait forever). It got to a tipping point when these time sensitive issues needed to be addressed and the public got bored with Social distancing spiking the infection rate. Patients were festering at home and eventually needed treatment, many times much more severely than originally necessary.
Flattening the curve does not save the public from contracting the virus. Most of us will get it, or have already had it. It’s primarily purpose is to spread out the timeframe and prevent catastrophic healthcare failure.
The public needs to accept COVID similar to the flu, know that most will get it, and many will succumb to it, unfortunately.
Flattening the curve does not save the public from contracting the virus. Most of us will get it, or have already had it. It’s primarily purpose is to spread out the timeframe and prevent catastrophic healthcare failure.
The public needs to accept COVID similar to the flu, know that most will get it, and many will succumb to it, unfortunately.
Posted on 7/24/20 at 9:16 pm to Privateer 2007
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Wasn't part of the "lockdown" to allow them to prepare?
WTF were they doing?
Goalposts take a lot of effort to move...
Posted on 7/24/20 at 9:26 pm to MrLSU
I’ll worry when the 100 million dollar convention center hospital is filled up
Posted on 7/24/20 at 9:38 pm to windshieldman
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Every single person in Louisiana is deceased. The virus wiped the state out. Now all the Texan women have nobody to frick.
This is one of the weirder posts I’ve ever seen on here
Posted on 7/24/20 at 9:39 pm to teke184
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OLOL is all Covid all the time and doesn’t have enough staff to fill the beds in the facility
This is correct. Wonder if this is due to workers getting COVID or the free government money’s that runs out at the end of the month.
The General ships majority of this Covids to mid city. Bluebonnet At the mall Is not full at all.
Posted on 7/24/20 at 9:42 pm to Privateer 2007
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Wasn't part of the "lockdown" to allow them to prepare?
WTF were they doing?
Tik Tok videos don't make themselves.
(yet)
Posted on 7/24/20 at 9:44 pm to MrLSU
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The hospitals in Louisiana appear to be at capacity
Because that's how they make money.
/thread
ETA - that's not some controversial political statement, it's a fact. A hospital would operate at capacity every day if it was up to them. Lately they can basically have pick of the litter.
This post was edited on 7/24/20 at 9:48 pm
Posted on 7/24/20 at 9:54 pm to YourHuckleberry
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The public needs to accept COVID similar to the flu, know that most will get it, and many will succumb to it, unfortunately.
It isn't the public having acceptance issues.
Posted on 7/24/20 at 10:24 pm to 4WHLN
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Wonder if this is due to workers getting COVID or the free government money’s that runs out at the end of the month.
Unemployment
Nursing homes are offering signing bonuses & can’t get help
Supposedly surgery centers are facing same issues, especially from nurses that have kids at home
Posted on 7/25/20 at 6:57 am to YourHuckleberry
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Flattening the curve does not save the public from contracting the virus.
Tell that to our governor.
Posted on 7/25/20 at 7:03 am to LSUJML
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Unemployment
Nursing homes are offering signing bonuses & can’t get help
Supposedly surgery centers are facing same issues, especially from nurses that have kids at home
Finding/retaining LPNs before all this mess was a problem. Signing bonuses aren’t so much a product of the pandemic as they are the market.
Posted on 7/25/20 at 7:29 am to AmosMosesAndTwins
Two data points from medical workers (ICU) I know in hospitals in other states. Influx is not from COVID, but from people holding off on seeking medical help because of their fear of getting COVID. People that would have faced minor issues are now facing serious complications because they were afraid to go to a hospital. The actual COVID numbers are relatively small and easily managed.
Posted on 7/25/20 at 7:31 am to MrLSU
Not in LA, but this is what a friend who is a nurse, sent me on July 14th.
We are getting hours cut and furloughed! I’m so over this crap and the lies being put out. FYI there are no bed shortages here due to covid! We don’t have any covid pts at our hospital!
The bed shortages are due to the fact we don’t have elective surgeries and they are laying us off. So that effects how many people can be admitted to the hospital due to laying off of staff and cutting nurses hours. We have 6 floors at our hospital 5 of the floors have beds. We have at least 30 something rooms per floor. We only had 33 rooms with pts because they can’t afford to open up the other floors. And only 2 beds available to take on new pts. So when the numbers are being reported about bed shortages it’s not due to covid pts!!
I’m sorry, I’m loosing hours big time and only a ranging since feb 16.5 hours a week.
Things could have changed over the course of a week here in MS but that was her take last wk.
We are getting hours cut and furloughed! I’m so over this crap and the lies being put out. FYI there are no bed shortages here due to covid! We don’t have any covid pts at our hospital!
The bed shortages are due to the fact we don’t have elective surgeries and they are laying us off. So that effects how many people can be admitted to the hospital due to laying off of staff and cutting nurses hours. We have 6 floors at our hospital 5 of the floors have beds. We have at least 30 something rooms per floor. We only had 33 rooms with pts because they can’t afford to open up the other floors. And only 2 beds available to take on new pts. So when the numbers are being reported about bed shortages it’s not due to covid pts!!
I’m sorry, I’m loosing hours big time and only a ranging since feb 16.5 hours a week.
Things could have changed over the course of a week here in MS but that was her take last wk.
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