Hospitals & Other Medical Facilities-CoVid 19 (Including Healthcare workers)

Pentagon Preparing Navy Hospital Ships Mercy, Comfort for Coronavirus Response
https://news.usni.org/2020/03/17/pentagon-preparing-navy-hospital-ships-mercy-comfort-for-coronavirus-response?fbclid=IwAR3Lnroy_vK-G_ptBvQKsOgJY4nC5NYt60gmNiMpIWWsSClEGhJXzvSqJJY

 The Pentagon is starting the process of activating Navy hospital ships USNS Mercy (T-AH-19) and USNS Comfort (T-AH-20) as part of the Defense Department’s domestic response to the spreading COVID-19 virus, USNI News has learned.

“We’ve already given orders to the Navy… to lean forward in terms of getting them ready to deploy,” Secretary of Defense Mark Esper told reporters on Tuesday.

The ships will now begin the several days-long process of bringing aboard medical staff and equipment ahead of deploying along the East and West coasts, a defense official confirmed to USNI News on Tuesday afternoon.  ---CONTINUED---

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer loosens nursing, hospital restrictions in preparation for coronavirus
https://www.mlive.com/public-interest/2020/03/michigan-gov-gretchen-whitmer-loosens-nursing-hospital-restrictions-in-preparation-for-coronavirus.html

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Tuesday, March 13, loosened restrictions on hospitals, doctors, nurses and other caretakers in preparation for possible spread of the coronavirus.

Whitmer’s executive order remains in effect through April 14. It allows hospitals to build temporary or mobile facilities to care for coronavirus patients, permits the Licensing and Regulatory Agency to temporarily register nurses who haven’t yet passed required testing for up to 28 days; allows medical and nursing license renewals prior to completion of existing education requirements, allows hours spent responding to coronavirus patients to be applied to educational requirements and allows non-nurses, such as social workers or volunteers, to feed and transport coronavirus patients. ---CONTINUED---

Last Week One Paramedic Was Infected. Now Over 150 Are in Quarantine.
https://news.yahoo.com/last-week-one-paramedic-infected-190941690.html

NEW YORK — It began last week when an Emergency Medical Services worker contracted the coronavirus from his girlfriend. Three days later, more than 20 of these workers, who form part of the New York City Fire Department, were in isolation for potential exposure to the virus, either through their colleagues, patients or off-duty contacts.

By Wednesday morning, three Fire Department employees had tested positive. Now, more than 150 members of the department are in quarantine, including dozens of EMS workers, according to union and department officials. ---CONTINUED---

Seattle Suburb Builds Coronavirus Hospital on Soccer Field
https://www.facilitiesnet.com/healthcarefacilities/tip/Seattle-Suburb-Builds-Coronavirus-Hospital-on-Soccer-Field--45792

(SNIP) ... In Shoreline, Wash., a northern suburb of Seattle, a soccer field is being repurposed as the site of a 200-bed coronavirus field hospital, according to KOMO. The field hospital, part of King County’s efforts to add more than 3,000 beds to combat the coronavirus pandemic, will treat coronavirus patients “exposed to, at risk of exposure, or becoming ill with the novel coronavirus.” ---CONTINUED---

Life, or death? Experts guide pandemic medical equipment decisions
http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/03/life-or-death-experts-guide-pandemic-medical-equipment-decisions


Life, or death? Experts guide pandemic medical equipment decisions
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Mary Van Beusekom | News Writer | CIDRAP News
| Mar 23, 2020

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As healthcare systems all over the world face rationing of medical supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) amid the COVID-19 pandemic, experts are offering recommendations to enable ethical allocation.

In an article today in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), an international group of experts on medical ethics and health policy give six recommendations to ensure that patients are treated equally and that individual physicians don't have to make the "terrible" decision about which patients receive life-sustaining treatment and which do not. ---CONTINUED---

At some U.S. hospitals, drugs, catheters, oxygen tanks run low
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/at-some-us-hospitals-drugs-catheters-oxygen-tanks-run-low/ar-BB11OuCu?li=BBnb4R7&ocid=iehp

NEW YORK - It's not just protective facemasks that are in short supply: health workers in U.S. hospitals are reporting dwindling stocks of drugs, catheters and other medical miscellany vital for caring for a surge in patients stricken by the coronavirus outbreak.

Marney Gruber, a doctor who works in emergency rooms around New York City, said a number of commonly used medications are in short supply, and at least one hospital had run out of central line kits, which are used to administer drugs to patients in intensive care. ---CONTINUED---

Race to build temporary hospitals nationwide as coronavirus spreads
https://www.foxnews.com/us/army-corps-engineers-temporary-hospitals-coronavirus

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is looking at 114 facilities in all 50 states to convert into potential temporary hospitals in an effort to increase the nation’s hospital capacity in preparation for an expected influx of hundreds of thousands of coronavirus patients.

"I would think that the 114 is going to keep going up by 20 or 30 every single day," said Lt. Gen. Todd Semonite, the commanding general of the Army Corps of Engineers. ---CONTINUED---

What it’s like for health care workers on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic
https://www.channel3000.com/i/what-its-like-for-health-care-workers-on-the-front-lines-of-the-coronavirus-pandemic/

Across the country, health care professionals have mobilized to treat patients suffering from the novel coronavirus, and many are doing so without adequate supplies and equipment.

Now, some are sharing what it’s like inside their hospitals as they face an unprecedented crisis. Some are overwhelmed, they told CNN, and others are afraid. Their hearts break for their patients and their patients’ families.

Here’s what they have to say. ---CONTINUED---

Doctors urge patients with broken bones to avoid emergency rooms
https://www.wxyz.com/news/coronavirus/doctors-urge-patients-with-broken-bones-to-avoid-emergency-rooms

BINGHAM FARMS, Mich. (WXYZ) — Before if you broke a bone, it was a given. You went to either the emergency room or your doctor’s office right away. The COVID-19 outbreak has changed that. Sometimes it is simply more dangerous to get treatment than to stay home.

“The emergency rooms are being completely overrun,” said Dr. James Bicos, Michigan Orthopaedic Surgeons. ---CONTINUNED---

Because of age, third of US doctors prone to worse COVID-19
http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/03/because-age-third-us-doctors-prone-worse-covid-19

Nearly one in three licensed doctors in the United States is older than 60 years, an age-group particularly vulnerable to adverse outcomes from COVID-19, according to a study published today on the preprint server medRxiv. And New York and California, two hard-hit states, have the most older physicians.

"The physician workforce is not only at risk of losing time spent in clinical care due to these exposures, but at a personal risk from severe disease that requires hospitalization ... ---CONTINUED---

U.S. Clears More Than 5,000 Outpatient Centers as Makeshift Hospitals in COVID-19 Crisis
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/u-s-clears-more-than-5-000-outpatient-centers-as-makeshift-hospitals-in-covid-19-crisis/

The Trump administration cleared the way Monday to immediately use outpatient surgery centers, inpatient rehabilitation hospitals, hotels and even dormitories as makeshift hospitals, health care centers or quarantine sites during the coronavirus crisis.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced it is temporarily waiving a range of rules, thereby allowing doctors to care for more patients. ---CONTINUED---

NYC's healthcare workers are at a greater risk of getting the novel coronavirus. They're also not getting tested.
https://www.businessinsider.com/nyc-healthcare-workers-risk-getting-coronavirus-but-cant-get-tested-2020-3

Diana Torres, a registered nurse at Manhattan's Mount Sinai West hospital, knew she was being exposed to the novel coronavirus in her work treating patients.

She didn't realize she was working with someone who had a confirmed case of the COVID-19 virus until her assistant manager, Kious Kelly, 48, died from the disease last week. ---CONTINUED---

Every US Hospital Could Soon be Treating COVID, US Study Says
https://www.voanews.com/science-health/coronavirus-outbreak/every-us-hospital-could-soon-be-treating-covid-us-study-says

Every hospital in the United States may soon be treating coronavirus cases, the government's Health and Human Services agency says in a new report.

Right now, three out of four hospitals are treating confirmed or suspected cases and are dealing with such problems as shortages of equipment, not enough protective gear for doctors and nurses, and hospital workers who are burned out and worried about their own safety. ---CONTINUED---

ReadyMom wrote:Rick1: Maybe this is why PA's #s were skewed (and others, too!)

US Hospitals Getting Paid More to Label Cause of Death as ‘Coronavirus’
https://www.globalresearch.ca/hospitals-getting-paid-more-label-cause-death-coronavirus/5709720

You know ReadyMom, this is nothing more than fraud, just to get paid more money.

rick1 wrote:

ReadyMom wrote:Rick1: Maybe this is why PA's #s were skewed (and others, too!)

US Hospitals Getting Paid More to Label Cause of Death as ‘Coronavirus’
https://www.globalresearch.ca/hospitals-getting-paid-more-label-cause-death-coronavirus/5709720

You know ReadyMom, this is nothing more than fraud, just to get paid more money.

Does anyone think we will EVER know a true count? I don't.

ReadyMom wrote:

rick1 wrote:

ReadyMom wrote:Rick1: Maybe this is why PA's #s were skewed (and others, too!)

US Hospitals Getting Paid More to Label Cause of Death as ‘Coronavirus’
https://www.globalresearch.ca/hospitals-getting-paid-more-label-cause-death-coronavirus/5709720

You know ReadyMom, this is nothing more than fraud, just to get paid more money.

Does anyone think we will EVER know a true count? I don't.

I don't believe we'll ever know the true counts, governments, from the town's Mayor to the President know how to hide figures.

There's an old saying my grandfather use to say, "Liars figure, but figures don't lie."

Illinois health care business settles with a 10.3 million dollar settlement for those health care workers that were fired for not getting the covid vaccine 'cause of their religious beliefs.

Not only that, they get their jobs back too.

This just the beginning of bigger things to come, just my thoughts.

https://www.standingforfreedom.com/2022/07/northshore-university-healthsystem-agrees-to-pay-10-3-million-to-religious-healthcare-workers-fired-for-refusing-covid-vaccine/

rick1 wrote:Illinois health care business settles with a 10.3 million dollar settlement for those health care workers that were fired for not getting the covid vaccine 'cause of their religious beliefs.

Not only that, they get their jobs back too.

This just the beginning of bigger things to come, just my thoughts.

https://www.standingforfreedom.com/2022/07/northshore-university-healthsystem-agrees-to-pay-10-3-million-to-religious-healthcare-workers-fired-for-refusing-covid-vaccine/

Praise The Lord.
This is the first rational thing I have heard from any government agency, in quite a while.

TRex2 wrote:

rick1 wrote:Illinois health care business settles with a 10.3 million dollar settlement for those health care workers that were fired for not getting the covid vaccine 'cause of their religious beliefs.

Not only that, they get their jobs back too.

This just the beginning of bigger things to come, just my thoughts.

https://www.standingforfreedom.com/2022/07/northshore-university-healthsystem-agrees-to-pay-10-3-million-to-religious-healthcare-workers-fired-for-refusing-covid-vaccine/

Praise The Lord.
This is the first rational thing I have heard from any government agency, in quite a while.

TRex, in Nebraska, they're recruiting unvaccinated nurses to cover nursing shortages, what goes around, comes around:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/26/us/nebraska-delta-nurses-unvaccinated.html