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Catholic Medical Center in Manchester aims to discharge its long-term care patients to a nursing home within five days. Today, it can take more than 14 weeks because an unprecedented surge in COVID-19 patients and too few health care workers have left.
When there are no beds left, hospitals are transferring patients who need acute care, including stroke and heart attack victims, to other hospitals – in and out of state.