Jim Brexler witnessed the devastating effects of COVID-19 months months before most other Pennsylvania hospital leaders did.
His health system, Doylestown Health, is located about 80 miles southwest of New York City, where the pandemic s first surge was centered one year ago. We are just 15 miles from the Delaware River and we were watching everything in New York City and New Jersey, said Brexler, Doylestown Health s CEO. In January 2020, we started prepping and getting things ready.
Doylestown Health and other hospitals in southeastern Pennsylvania have suffered two surges of COVID-19 patients during the pandemic. The initial wave was in late March and April, and the other occurred between Thanksgiving and Christmas, when most Pennsylvania hospitals were affected.
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Two Warren parents have been charged with administering suboxone to a 2-year-old girl who was suffering from withdrawal from suboxone caused by use during the mother’s pregnancy as well as breast feeding.
Warren County ranks roughly in the middle of the commonwealth for rate of neonatal abstinence syndrome per 1,000 babies in 2016-17 at 13.8 births per 1,000, according to a report by the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council. Neighboring McKean County has a rate of 24.4 NAS births per 1,000 while Crawford County has a rate of 31.8 NAS births per 1,000. The latest count released by Pennsylvania officials shows 2,140 such cases throughout the commonwealth in 2019.
COVID-19 much deadlier than regular flu for Pa. patients, new report finds
Updated Jan 27, 2021;
Posted Jan 27, 2021
Doctors on the COVID-19 floor at MetroHealth s Cleveland hospital use a portable ultrasound machine to look at the lungs of a patient in April, 2020. Credit: Joshua Gunter, Cleveland Plain Dealer, cleveland.com.Joshua Gunter file photo | For cleveland.com
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The death rate for people hospitalized with COVID-19 in Pennsylvania during the early months of the pandemic was 16.3%.
That’s far more than the 3% death rate for people hospitalized with regular flu in recent years, according to new research from the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council.
The Lehigh Valley had among Pa.’s highest COVID hospitalization rates at start of pandemic, new study shows
Updated Jan 27, 2021;
Posted Jan 27, 2021
Doctors on the COVID-19 floor at MetroHealth s Cleveland hospital use a portable ultrasound machine to look at the lungs of a patient as they make their morning rounds.Joshua Gunter file photo | For cleveland.com
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A new study from a Pennsylvania health care cost watchdog examines the spike in hospitalizations during the first four months of the coronavirus pandemic, from March through June 2020.
During those months, there were 19,177 COVID-19 hospitalizations in Pennsylvania, according to the report being released Wednesday from the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council (PHC4).