California hospitals are running out of hospital beds as coronavirus cases continue to soar across the state
Latest figures show more than 18,961 people are hospitalized with COVID-19, with the number of available ICU beds dwindling daily
Patients at Kaiser Permanente, Dignity Health, and Sutter Health, have been placed in hallways and conference rooms due to lack of space
At Martin Luther King, Jr Community Hospital in Los Angeles, patients have spilled over into the gift shop and five tents outside
The latest community report from the White House COVID-19 Task Force shows California is seeing the largest acceleration of infection in the country and is now closing in on two million confirmed cases
California health system buckling under COVID-19 pandemic
by Robert Jablon And Don Thompson, The Associated Press
Posted Dec 23, 2020 12:04 am EDT
Last Updated Dec 23, 2020 at 12:12 am EDT
LOS ANGELES California’s health care system is buckling under the strain of the nation’s largest coronavirus outbreak and may fracture in weeks if people ignore holiday social distancing, health officials warned as the number of people needing beds and specialized care soared to previously unimagined levels.
Top executives from the state’s largest hospital systems Kaiser Permanente, Dignity Health and Sutter Health, which together cover 15 million Californians said Tuesday that increasingly exhausted staff, many pressed into service outside their normal duties, are now attending to COVID-19 patients stacked up in hallways and conference rooms.
LOS ANGELES (AP) California s health care system is buckling under the strain of the nation s largest coronavirus outbreak and may fracture in weeks if people ignore holiday social distancing, health officials warned as the number of people needing beds and specialized care soared to previously unimagined levels.
Top executives from the state’s largest hospital systems Kaiser Permanente, Dignity Health and Sutter Health, which together cover 15 million Californians said Tuesday that increasingly exhausted staff, many pressed into service outside their normal duties, are now attending to COVID-19 patients stacked up in hallways and conference rooms.
The CEO of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital in Los Angeles, Dr. Elaine Batchlor, separately said patients there have spilled over into the gift shop and five tents outside the emergency department.
Officials say Christmas and COVID could break California s health care system
Phlebotomist lab assistant Jennifer Cukati, right, and Registered Nurse Carina Klescewski, left, care for a COVID-19 patient inside the Sutter Roseville Medical Center ICU in Roseville, Calif., on Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020. The patient came in the night befo We don’t have space for anybody. We’ve been holding patients for days because we can’t get them transferred, can’t get beds for them.
Posted: Dec 23, 2020 8:05 AM
Posted By: Mike Bunge
LOS ANGELES (AP) California s health care system is buckling under the strain of the nation s largest coronavirus outbreak and may fracture in weeks if people ignore holiday social distancing, health officials warned as the number of people needing beds and specialized care soared to previously unimagined levels.