West Alabama hospitals details coronavirus struggles
COVID testing west Alabama hospitals By Kelvin Reynolds | January 15, 2021 at 6:04 PM CST - Updated January 15 at 7:39 PM
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (WBRC) - Administrators from the DCH Health System based in Tuscaloosa, along the Greene County Health System in Eutaw and Whitfield Memorial in Demopolis detailed some of their biggest coronavirus-related problems during a discussion organized Thursday by the Chamber of Commerce of West Alabama.
It’s not as easy to send a patient to a nearby hospital as before, because so many of them are caring for people sick with COVID19.
“As we speak right now, I have patients who have come to us from Thomasville, Hale County, Talledega and Russell Hospital. That’s three and a half hours from us. We had a trauma patient that we couldn’t get anywhere that we had to put on a plane and send to Nashville,” Douglas Brewer, CEO at Whitfield Memorial told the group.