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Beaumont Hospital Troy reschedules inpatient elective surgeries amid virus surge
The Detroit News
As COVID-19 cases climb in Metro Detroit, Beaumont Hospital in Troy is rescheduling inpatient elective surgeries, representatives said Friday.
All outpatient elective surgeries are still on, Bob Ortlieb, a spokesman for Beaumont Health, told The Detroit News in an email. Daily, Beaumont hospitals continue to assess all surgeries on a case by case basis, he said.
The news came a day after at least eight hospitals across Michigan were listed at full capacity for COVID-19 patients.
Beaumont Health had issued an urgent warning that its number of hospitalized patients has risen from 128 on Feb. 28 to more than 800 on Thursday, more patients than experienced during the fall surge of coronavirus cases. Beaumont s Farmington Hills, Royal Oak and Troy hospitals were listed as filled at 100% capacity, according to the Michigan Health and Hospital Association s database.
Originally published on December 14, 2020 8:08 pm
Dr. Darryl Elmouchi got the notice Sunday night that the package was on the way. The cardiologist, who serves as president of West Michigan’s largest hospital system, got an alert through Spectrum Health’s command center, saying the initial shipment of 975 doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine was on the way.
“It literally felt like we were receiving a package from Amazon or Best Buy,” Elmouchi said during a Zoom call with media on Monday.
Spectrum Health’s main hospital, Butterworth, is a one-hour drive from the Pfizer facility in Portage where workers are churning out thousands of doses of the first vaccine approved in the U.S. to protect against the disease that’s now killed more than 300,000 Americans.