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Idaho hospitals are so overwhelmed with the surge in coronavirus cases that doctors and nurses have to contact dozens of regional hospitals across the West in hopes of finding places to transfer individual critical patients.
The situation has grown so bad that the Idaho Department of Health and Wellness announced Thursday that the entire state is in a hospital resource crisis, permitting medical facilities to ration health care and triage patients.
Kootenai Health, a hospital in Coeur dAlene, Idaho, has already converted a conference room into an overflow Covid unit, started paying traveling nurses $250 an hour and brought in a military medical unit. The hospital received permission from the state to begin rationing care last week. That's all in response to the Covid surge that in recent weeks has taken over much of Idaho a state with one of the nation's lowest vaccination rates.
"It's just nonstop trying to find placement for these patients and the care that they need," said Brian Whitlock, the president and CEO of the Idaho Hospital Association, who noted that hospitals across the state are struggling with the same issue. "It really is a minute-by-minute assessment of where beds are open, and hospitals saying we don't know where we're going to put the next one."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/idaho-hospital-forced-to-turn-away-hundreds-of-transfer-patients-amid-covid-surge/ar-AAOv8Ac
33taw
(2,420 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,112 posts)Most of the Aryan Church came from out of state They moved to Idaho figuring it was remote and sparsely populated making it easy to create their own white utopia.
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dutch777
(2,871 posts)tragedy going on and on must be horrifying to watch day in and day out.