COVID-19 field hospital in Lenoir to close as cases, hospitalizations drop Dave Faherty
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Cases and hospitalizations are improving so much that a field hospital in Lenoir is getting ready to close.
Samaritan’s Purse opened the 30-bed field hospital outside of Caldwell Memorial because of high community spread, but the county health department said things are finally starting to turn around.
Breaking Lenoir- Samaritan’s Purse is getting ready to take down its emergency field hospital at Caldwell Memoiral after treating 79-patients. Hear from workers and folks who were treated for covid-19 today on eyewitness news at noon and 530pm on channel 9 eyewitness news. pic.twitter.com/FWsvlJEJYV Dave Faherty (@FahertyWSOC9) February 2, 2021
RALEIGH — As vaccinations begin to make an impact in Avery County through local health department rollout, statistics for COVID-19 on the local and state levels continue to concern health
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LENOIR, N.C. (WTVD) As North Carolina reported a record number of hospitalizations 23 times in December for COVID-19 cases, the humanitarian group, Samaritan s Purse is doing its first good deed of the year by setting up an Emergency Field Hospital in the western part of the state.
The international headquarters of Samaritan s Purse, led by Reverend Franklin Graham, is located in Boone, N.C. The group is constructing a 30-bed field hospital for COVID-19 patients in Lenoir, North Carolina in a parking lot at the UNC Caldwell Health Care Center.
The field hospital will support five regional partners:
Caldwell UNC Health Care in Lenoir
COVID-19 Field Hospital To Be Constructed At Caldwell UNC Healthcare In Lenoir
COVID-19 Field Hospital To Be Constructed At Caldwell UNC Healthcare In Lenoir
December 31, 2020
Samaritan’s Purse will begin the construction of a 30-bed, emergency field hospital on the grounds of Caldwell UNC Health Care in Lenoir, Friday (January 1). The unit will provide regional COVID-19 care support, assisting five health systems in western North Carolina. Those systems are Caldwell UNC Health Care, Appalachian Regional Health Care in Boone, Catawba Valley Health System in Hickory, Carolinas Healthcare System Blue Ridge in Morganton, and Frye Regional Medical Center in Hickory.
The Caldwell UNC site was chose for the field hospital due to its central location and ability to provide support services. Patients receiving treatment at the field hospital will be limited to those who are COVID-positive but do not need the support of a ventilator.