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SACREMENTO, Dec. 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ Accusations being made by one nurses union are false and worse, irresponsible in the middle of the greatest health crisis in generations, said Carmela Coyle, President & CEO of the California Hospital Association. In response to the California Nurses Association s claims that CHA is exploiting the pandemic to undermine California s landmark safe staffing standards, Coyle said, Nothing could be further from the truth. What nurses, doctors, hospitals and state officials are all doing is our absolute best to save lives and care for every Californian in need, Coyle said. Now is the time for everyone to come together to care for this tsunami of COVID patients.
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San Diego County posts new COVID-19 case record; ICU staff wearing thin [The San Diego Union-Tribune]
San Diego County set a fresh single-day coronavirus case record Friday as it became increasingly clear that local intensive care capacity is stretched much thinner than bed occupancy numbers suggest.
The county health department’s daily COVID-19 update includes 2,867 additional cases, besting the previous record set on Dec. 4 by 580. An additional 23 coronavirus-associated deaths appeared in the report, and total hospitalizations hit 965, representing nearly 21 percent of the 4,627 total patients in beds across the region Thursday.
The situation is most severe in intensive care units.
Friday’s report indicates an occupancy rate of 82 percent of all ICU beds in the county. However, Dr. Wilma Wooten, the county’s public health officer, indicated Wednesday that this number is a bit misleading. Not all of those beds that remain open have enough staff available to be filled at s
Reply Registered nurses and caregivers gathered outside Palomar Medical Center Poway to protest what they are unsafe working conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic, a claim which the healthcare system described as appalling and irresponsible. (Shutterstock)
POWAY, CA Registered nurses and caregivers gathered outside Palomar Medical Center Poway to protest what they are unsafe working conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic, a claim which the healthcare system described as appalling and irresponsible.
The disagreement stems from a waiver Palomar Health received from the California Department of Public Health on Wednesday, which allows the Poway campus to assign one intensive care nurse to care for up to three patients, depending on patient acuity. Nurses say they are already overworked. In late April, Palomar Health laid off 317 employees, which the union members said exacerbated issues.
Nurses Angered Over Palomar Health s Effort to Change ICU Patient-to-Nurse Staffing Ratio nbcsandiego.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nbcsandiego.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.