Regional: Ca Hospital Intensive Care Units Mostly Full
Bay City News Service
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At hospitals in Fresno, critically ill patients with nowhere to go are stuck in crowded emergency rooms.
Doctors face such a dire shortage of intensive care beds at Community Regional Medical Center that patients who should be treated in specialized intensive care units were instead filling 12 of its 15 emergency room beds reserved for the severely sick and injured last weekend. That really bottlenecks us right in the front door, said Rais Vohra, an emergency medicine physician at Fresno s Community Regional Medical Center and the county s interim health officer. We re very worried.