Illinois hospital beds are filling up with more COVID-19 patients than at any other point in the pandemic prompting fears of employee burnout amid staffing shortages.
Advocate Aurora Health was already experiencing staffing shortages before this latest surge of COVID-19 patients "and that has accelerated due to fatigue, stress, and also as team members become ill or exposed to COVID."
Chicago area hospitals are postponing many elective surgeries, following a plea from Gov. J.B. Pritzker and the state hospital association last week that they halt nonemergency procedures amid what’s become
With 6,294 COVID-19 patients now hospitalized statewide, there are now more people hospitalized in Illinois with the disease than at any other point of the pandemic.