Macomb County hospitals reach bed capacity with mix of COVID-19 and medical patients
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McLaren Macomb Hospital in Mt. Clemens is among four statewide hospitals that have reached 100 percent bed occupancy capacity.
McLaren Macomb Hospital in Mt. Clemens has reached 100 percent bed occupancy capacity with all 68 rooms in its emergency department full of patients either waiting to be admitted or undergoing treatment.
It is one of three hospitals in Macomb County at or exceeding inpatient capacity, according to data provided by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services on April 12.
Statewide, four hospitals have reached 100 percent bed capacity McLaren Macomb, Ascension Macomb-Oakland in Warren, Ascension St. Joseph Hospital in Tawas City and Ascension Standish Hospital and 15 more have exceeded 90 percent, said MDHHS.
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Michigan is ramping up a specific form of treatment for those with COVID-19 in an effort to prevent the likelihood of hospitalization or death, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and state health officials announced Wednesday.
While the governor said the state is using every mitigation strategy to fight the virus, Whitmer said there is no plan to issue new health and safety regulations to stem the nation s worst surge of the pandemic. The national experts with whom we consult have said, You don t have a policy problem, Whitmer said. Michigan still has some of the strongest protocols in place capacity restrictions, we ve got a mask mandate. Other states have dropped all of these things. We still have them in Michigan, and yet we have high (COVID-19) positivity rates.
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System Failure
The mission of senior care facilities to ease residents’ twilight years turned into a nightmare after state leaders failed to adequately separate COVID-19 patients from healthy individuals.
When COVID-19 started roiling through nursing homes last winter, Cecelia Payne had more
at stake than most. And her worst fears soon became reality. Her husband, Arnold Brown, 78, died of COVID-19 on April 24, 2020, at McLaren Macomb Hospital in Mt. Clemens after being transferred there from the Martha T. Berry Medical Care Facility.
Brown, a former manufacturing tooling engineer before a stroke disabled him, had been in the Mt. Clemens skilled nursing facility since 2006. His roommate at the medical care facility died, as well. “I really do feel that he got it from a staff member,” Payne, of Macomb Township, says of her husband’s illness. “Especially when I learned his roommate had it, too.”