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Riverside County hospitals overflowing with COVID-19 patients
Record-number COVID-19 cases are continuing to overwhelm Riverside County hospitals.
RIVERSIDE COUNTY, Calif. - Hospitals in Riverside County are under a crisis, overflowing with record-breaking numbers of COVID-19 patients, forcing them to re-purpose parts of buildings never before used for patient care. We have an old cafeteria dining area that we have converted - we’ve converted it to a patient care space and we have 11 beds in there right now, said Annette Greenwood, Chief Nursing Officer at Riverside Community Hospital. Every single spot that can be used for patient care is basically going to be used. That includes hallways and spaces that were previously offices.we have an education complex that we could use potentially for.walking type of patients.
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Dec 23, 2020
Health workers at Loma Linda University Health received the organization’s first vaccinations against COVID-19 .
Victor Sabala, an environmental services worker at Loma Linda University Medical Center received the first shot, followed by Bertha Leon, another environmental services worker at the Medical Center, and Amber Mejia, an Emergency Department nurse at the Medical Center.
Approximately 3,800 doses of the vaccine were delivered to LLUH on Wednesday, December 16, and will be given to employees throughout the next weeks.
The vaccinations are being administered by Loma Linda University students from the School of Pharmacy and School of Nursing.
With ICU capacity at 100% across Southern California, hospitals are implementing surge plans to increase capacity. But public health officials say it s not so much a question of having enough bed space, but rather having enough frontline health care workers to care for patients. What we re seeing in the ICUs is we ve got some space, and they re able to move stuff around and free up space, said Shane Reichardt, public information officer for the Riverside County Emergency Management Department. But our staff in the ICU is really low.
At the Riverside University Health Systems Medical Center in Moreno Valley, partitions and curtains have been set up in the hospital to create more ICU bed space. But finding the personnel to care for patients is difficult.