Sky Lakes temporarily cancels inpatient elective surgeries to meet COVID-19 demand
Sky Lakes Medical Center announced that it is canceling elective surgeries to relieve some of the pressure on staff who are caring for an increasing number of COVID-19 patients.
Posted: Dec 31, 2020 3:01 PM
Updated: Dec 31, 2020 3:03 PM
Posted By: Jamie Parfitt
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. Sky Lakes Medical Center will temporarily cancel all elective surgeries that require an overnight stay in an effort to relieve the pressure on hospital staff spread thin by coronavirus.
This change will particularly help ease the impacts on nursing staff who care for COVID-19 patients, according to Annette Cole, RN and Chief Nursing Officer at Sky Lakes. Cole said that nurses who take care of patients in surgical-care units would be available when surgeries are canceled.