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Cullman hospital ICU hits 150 percent of capacity due to COVID; ‘Getting close to overflowing’
Updated Dec 22, 2020;
Cullman Regional Medical Center has struggled since early November with an onslaught of COVID-19 patients who have overflowed its 12-bed intensive care unit.
On Monday, the hospital had 18 patients on ventilators, 150 percent of its usual ICU capacity. Hospital administrators turned a regular medical surgery unit into a makeshift ICU for the extra patients.
Although the hospital has been able to handle all the patients, turning regular beds into ICU beds isn’t as simple as adding a ventilator, said Dr. William Smith, medical director of Cullman Regional Medical Center. Patients in intensive care require 24-hour surveillance, but the hospital built its medical surgery rooms for privacy. The hospital hired more staff to keep closer watch on the critically ill patients.
Postponing surgeries, calling up student nurses, Alabama hospitals enter ‘uncharted territory’
Updated Dec 17, 2020;
Posted Dec 17, 2020
The drive-thru testing site operated by Thrive Alabama in Huntsville reached its testing capacity shortly after opening on June 29, 2020. Demand for COVID-19 tests has increased around the state as Alabama sees record numbers of positive cases and hospitalizations. (Anna Claire Vollers / avollers@AL.com)
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Hospitals around Alabama have been forced to take steps this week to protect patients and staff as coronavirus cases and hospitalizations continue to rise to record numbers across the state.
Southeast Health in Dothan temporarily suspended some elective surgeries. Riverview Regional Medical Center in Gadsden told ambulances it had run out of room in the hospital. And the University of Alabama at Birmingham called some nursing students into service as the hospital struggles with staffing shortages and a high volume of COVID
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