WENATCHEE â Central Washington Hospital is near maximum capacity for patients and the number of COVID-19 cases keeps climbing.
The hospital has begun to divert patients to the Westside in its intensive care unit and progressive care unit, said Dr. Jason Lake, Confluence Health chief medical officer.
As of Wednesday morning, about 40 people were in the hospital with COVID-19 â 34 of them in isolation, Lake said. Nine patients with COVID-19 were in the intensive care unit and five of them were on ventilators.
The hospital can still make more beds available, but it does not have enough staffing to handle more patients, he said.Â
WENATCHEE â Central Washington Hospital is near maximum capacity for patients and the number of COVID-19 cases keeps climbing.
The hospital has begun to divert patients to the Westside in its intensive care unit and progressive care unit, said Dr. Jason Lake, Confluence Health chief medical officer.
As of Wednesday morning, about 40 people were in the hospital with COVID-19 â 34 of them in isolation, Lake said. Nine patients with COVID-19 were in the intensive care unit and five of them were on ventilators.
The hospital can still make more beds available, but it does not have enough staffing to handle more patients, he said.Â