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A beloved pizzeria owner in Brimfield, Mass., had COVID-19 and needed dialysis, but it wasn't available at the hospital where he died. The health system is "breaking down," a hospital CEO says.
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BOSTON — As hospitals battle a record surge of COVID-19 infections, physicians are urging the state to create a system to track empty beds in emergency rooms to ease capacity
Rona Tsantinis-Roy says doctors suggested her father might have survived if he’d been transferred to a larger hospital. Typically, that’s what happens when a patient at a community hospital needs more specialized care. But with hospitals full or nearly full across the state, transfers are harder and harder to arrange. Some patients are dying while they wait.
This week, the entire northeastern region of the state had a mere five available ICU beds and five regular hospital beds, according to DPH data.