Total beds (7-day average): 174
All adult inpatient beds: 174
Inpatient beds occupied: 143.3
Total adult patients confirmed and suspected COVID-19 (7-day average): N/A
Total adult patients confirmed COVID-19 (7-day average): N/A
Percent of adult inpatient beds used by confirmed and suspected COVID-19 patients: N/A
BRIDGEPOINT HOSPITAL CAPITOL HILL
Total beds (7-day average): 177
All adult inpatient beds: 177
Inpatient beds occupied: 160.1
Total adult patients confirmed and suspected COVID-19 (7-day average): N/A
Total adult patients confirmed COVID-19 (7-day average): N/A
Percent of adult inpatient beds used by confirmed and suspected COVID-19 patients: N/A
CHILDREN S NATIONAL HOSPITAL
Total beds (7-day average): 368
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As the Wall Street Journal reported, the Trump Administration successfully battled with hospitals to get them to disclose previously secret pricing data, in the hopes that disclosing this key information will benefit the U.S. health care system, notably in curbing costs. Here’s why, as the newspaper reported:
“Those who pay for health-care premiums and medical bills employers, workers and patients were long in the dark about wide price differences among hospitals for the same service in the same city, according to research and efforts by large employer groups to compare prices. Hospital prices are under intense scrutiny as the sector consolidates and research points to price increases after mergers, but without the quality gains that hospitals often cite as rationale for the combinations.
Embed While waiting for a liver transplant in 2011, 21-year-old Matthew Rosiello (shown here getting catheter help from his mom while he was on the waitlist) was advised by his doctors to relocate from New York to Ohio where the wait would be shorter. Indeed, in 2012 Rosiello received a liver transplant in Cleveland. AP Photo/Craig Ruttle
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While waiting for a liver transplant in 2011, 21-year-old Matthew Rosiello (shown here getting catheter help from his mom while he was on the waitlist) was advised by his doctors to relocate from New York to Ohio where the wait would be shorter. Indeed, in 2012 Rosiello received a liver transplant in Cleveland.
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Since then, members of Congress have been receiving the vaccine and publicizing the moment as a way to advertise the vaccine’s safety.
But with limited doses available across the U.S. and health care workers that have yet to receive the vaccine, lawmakers have faced some backlash for being among the first to get the critical shot.
“We were important enough to work a pandemic but not important enough to be at the front of the line for vaccinations,” an internal medicine resident at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital told The Washington Post.
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Replay Video UP NEXT When Vice President Pence and his wife bared their arms on national television to receive a coronavirus vaccine, a doctor just miles away who treats patients stricken with covid-19 was still waiting for a dose of prevention. The internal medicine resident at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital watched with frustration last week as inoculations were administered to scores of government leaders including lawmakers who refused to wear masks and Trump administration officials who minimized the pandemic while she and her colleagues were initially left unprotected because their hospital had received fewer than 1,000 doses of the scarce resource.