Covid shines new light on AGMC The Times-Gazette Adena Greenfield Medical Center (AGMC) was mobilized to create designated areas capable of caring for patients recovering from COVID-19, but not yet well enough to be sent home, after Adena Regional Medical Center (ARMC) was stressed to capacity during a December COVID-19 surge, the health system said in a news release. Adena Pike Medical Center (APMC) was also mobilized to help control the surge. “The efforts of those critical access hospitals have helped relieve some of the strain on ARMC’s coronavirus unit, freeing up bed space and desperately needed resources for those patients with the most severe reactions to the virus,” the news release said. “That effort by the critical access hospitals builds upon ongoing changes that began during Adena’s return to full operational status in the weeks following Gov. Mike DeWine’s monthlong shutdown of elective surgeries last spring. With a backlog of elective procedures needing to be addressed once the governor’s order was lifted, those facilities had the opportunity to showcase the services they can provide as the health system looked for ways to address that backlog as quickly as possible for patients.”