re: If/when hospitals start closing due to decrease of patients

Bc you are having a bad time everyone else should too? Unreal people think this way.

quote:

---

Bc you are having a bad time everyone else should too? Unreal people think this way.

---

Unreal how people who are not affected by our government’s orders are shaming those who are (e.g. unemployed, burning life savings, closing stores, etc) to shut up and not suggest alternative solutions that lessen the financial impact on us all.

Hell, Huntsville Hospital in AL laid off over 2,000 people when we closed down the state too soon. No word on how many are back to work now.

quote:

---

All the clowns who think this is a hoax need to take a walk around a local hospital and maybe they’ll Change their minds.

---

You aint getting in without an appointment or as an employee. No just walking around. You might blow the covid conspiracy.

quote:

---

HHS State wide 73% beds in use 15.8% with Covid

---

quote:

---

Can you help me understand these stats? How can someone possibly claim beds are full when data like this exists?

---

Because political leaders and medical experts/Hospital management are allowed, by the media, to give regular press briefings where 95% of media outlets refuse to ask difficult questions or call out inaccuracies or conflicting information. Media is content to parrot whatever they are fed.

quote:

---

All the clowns who think this is a hoax need to take a walk around a local hospital and maybe they’ll Change their minds.

---

i did precisely that when my daughter got stitches for her eye in Ruston, the place was dead. I wasn’t sure if it was even open, it was weird.

quote:

---

Can you help me understand these stats? How can someone possibly claim beds are full when data like this exists?

---

Because hospitals are not full as in no rooms, they are at capacity

Hospital has 400 rooms
Hospital lays off all extra staff during shutdown, hospital now employs 25 nurses
There is 1 nurse for every 3 patients
Hospital capacity is 75 rooms

Hospital cannot fill more beds until more staff is hired

My #’s are examples only, I’m not sure about actual ratios & I'm sure they change based upon type of unit / care


ETA
Ever had surgery or need admitted from ER & have to wait hours for a room but as you are moved you pass by dozens of empty rooms?
Same thing, you are waiting on someone to be discharged so you can take their place

quote:

---

“I can find a bed for you, but what we’re lacking now is staff,” Dr. O’Neal said. “As those numbers creep up, and COVID care is such intense care and you often need one-on-one nursing, so I can’t have a nurse taking care of three patients. I have a nurse taking care of one patient at a time, which means we’re running out of nursing care, we’re running out of respiratory therapists to help those patients, so we’re stretching that care to make it work.”

---

quote:

---

On any given day before the pandemic struck, Chief Operating Officer Stephanie Manson says the hospital’s ICU could handle approximately 70 patients, with the possibility of surging up to 80 during peak times. As it stands Thursday, July 23, the ICU has 124 patients, 40% of which have COVID-19.

---

WAFB 7/23

No because i speak to doctors that don't have a political agenda. But I know, you know a friend that knows a nurse. I'm sorry that the hospital staff are no longer being worshipped as Heroes.

There is no decrease in patients at area hospitals. On the contrary, most general community hospitals are full. Many are on divert due to lack of capacity (beds) and/or capability (staffing). I am not aware of any hospitals that have cut or laid off direct patient care nurses, whether critical care or floor nurses. More of those nurses are needed. Because many facilities have had to cut the elective surgery schedules, there are possibly OR nurses and ancillary staff that have had hours cut. But most certainly not in the direct patient care areas.