Storage units being converted to ICU units to make room for patients
MORENO VALLEY, Calif. - As coronavirus cases continue to surge in California, several storage units are being converted into ICU centers to help with the increase of patients.
Health officials in Riverside County say that 90% of their ICU beds and 70% of their licensed beds are taken.
A hospital in Moreno Valley had to get creative to take care of its patients and it s far from ideal.
FOX 11 News got a rare glimpse of the makeshift facility. It was a neo-natal unit before it became storage.
At the Riverside University Health System Hospital, the storage unit is housing 10 ICU beds. Pre-op and post-op recovery rooms are also being converted and children are being transferred to other hospitals, not because the children are sick with COVID-19, but because pediatric beds are the only ones open in the county at this point.