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Virginia reported another record day for new coronavirus infections, and that surge is putting even more pressure on hospitals in the commonwealth already pushed to the brink. “We are seeing higher numbers than we’ve ever seen,” Mary Washington Healthcare Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer Eileen Dohmann said. There are more COVID-19 patients in Virginia hospitals now than. hospitalizations Dec 23, 2020
In Northern Virginia, hospitals only have a few hundred beds left until they reach capacity. Northern Virginia Bureau Reporter Drew Wilder talked with the president of Inova Fairfax, who said hospitals can find more space, but he’s most worried about his medical staff.
âPregnant During a Pandemicâ sounds like a TV movie, but it was a real-life experience for Sarah Bullis, a first-time mom who faced the added anxiety of working in a hospitalâand potentially being exposed to COVID-19âwhile her baby developed.
Bullis and her husband, Justin, a professional firefighter, found out in February they were expecting. A month later, the pandemic had crisscrossed the globe, and the front-line workers had to consider the safety of their unborn child, as well as themselves, as they went about their daily duties.
Sheâs a radiologic technologist and supervisor in the Interventional Radiology and Cath Lab at Spotsylvania Regional Medical Center. She routinely assists doctors and nurses who diagnose and treat various problems, such as clogged arteries.
Spotsylvania Regional Medical Center has seen such a surge in COVID-19 patients that it had to open a second unitâand is making plans for a third.
In a weekly update posted on YouTube on Friday, Lee Van Sise, the hospitalâs chief nursing officer since June, said the surge started Monday night with an influx of emergency room patients who tested positive for the virus. After the six beds in the intensive care unit were filled, the hospital allocated seven more rooms for COVID-19 patients.
âWe are in the planning stages of opening a third unit as both are completely full,â he said.