BOISE, Idaho — Idaho public health leaders announced Tuesday that they activated “crisis standards of care” allowing health care rationing for the state’s northern hospitals because there are more coronavirus patients than the institutions can handle. The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare quietly enacted the move Monday and publicly […]
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Hospitals are overwhelmed by the surge in COVID patients infected with the delta variant. Kyle Green AP In the year and a half since its savage debut in the United States, the coronavirus pandemic has stretched our healthcare system nearly to the breaking point. Florida has a workforce shortage that […]
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Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. When the security guard at Methodist Hospital San Antonio met the visitor at the door of the children’s emergency room on a Saturday afternoon in early August, the officer’s request […]
An ambulance arrives at the emergency department at AdventHealth hospital in Orlando in late July. Florida is one of several states seeing disappearing hospital capacity as COVID-19 cases surge. Paul Hennessy /SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Paul Hennessy /SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images An ambulance arrives […]
When health officials in Austin and elsewhere in Texas saw an approaching COVID-19 surge last month, they sent urgent requests to the governor’s emergency operations team to bolster the number of nurses and staff. They had every reason to believe that more health care workers would soon fill hospital hallways. But as […]
The claim: ‘It’s not unusual for hospitals to sit at max or near max capacity on any given day’ Spurred by the highly contagious delta variant, coronavirus infections and deaths are increasing across the country. In states like Texas and Florida, which lead the country in daily average hospitalizations, hospitals are […]
Little Rock, Arkansas CNN — Takela Gardner began her nursing career just two years ago, but her patients already think she’s a seasoned nurse. A registered nurse at a University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) facility in Little Rock, Gardner told CNN she’s had to essentially learn nursing […]