Commonground
Senior Moderator
July 11, 2020
ODESSA, Texas (Big 2/Fox 24) – Area hospitals are seeing a dramatic increase in the number of hospitalizations due to COVID-19. Ector County is closing out the week with 227 new cases of COVID-19, the largest two-day jump the county has seen thus far.
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Tankersley says numbers change dramatically just from morning to the afternoon. For every four discharges, there are four new admissions.
“As of one point yesterday, we were at 51. So that’s a lot of COVID patients in house considering we look at just a month ago, we were only somewhere between 10 to 15.”
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ORMC [Odessa Regional Medical Center] is working to open up new beds for COVID-19 in phases. By the end of Phase Two, the hospital will provide 55 beds in total. 17 of them are currently filled.
“It’s kind of a double whammy in the fact that not only are we having surge capacity with patients, but also losing staff to potential sickness or having to be out for quarantine,” explained Midland Memorial Hospital’s Chief of Nursing Officer, Kit Bredimus.
MMH has the capacity right now to provide 137 beds for COVID-19 patients. 38 of them are currently filled. While medical resources are plenty, they say they lack the man power.
...https://www.abc4.com/news/hospitaliz...with-staffing/
ODESSA, Texas (Big 2/Fox 24) – Area hospitals are seeing a dramatic increase in the number of hospitalizations due to COVID-19. Ector County is closing out the week with 227 new cases of COVID-19, the largest two-day jump the county has seen thus far.
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Tankersley says numbers change dramatically just from morning to the afternoon. For every four discharges, there are four new admissions.
“As of one point yesterday, we were at 51. So that’s a lot of COVID patients in house considering we look at just a month ago, we were only somewhere between 10 to 15.”
-snip-
ORMC [Odessa Regional Medical Center] is working to open up new beds for COVID-19 in phases. By the end of Phase Two, the hospital will provide 55 beds in total. 17 of them are currently filled.
“It’s kind of a double whammy in the fact that not only are we having surge capacity with patients, but also losing staff to potential sickness or having to be out for quarantine,” explained Midland Memorial Hospital’s Chief of Nursing Officer, Kit Bredimus.
MMH has the capacity right now to provide 137 beds for COVID-19 patients. 38 of them are currently filled. While medical resources are plenty, they say they lack the man power.
...https://www.abc4.com/news/hospitaliz...with-staffing/