Indiana nurses rush to sign up for COVID-19 vaccine
For thousands of frontline healthcare workers, a shot of hope is now here in the form of a COVID-19 vaccine. Author: Dustin Grove Updated: 12:33 AM EST December 15, 2020
INDIANAPOLIS As hospitals continue to fill up with COVID-19 patients, doctors and nurses are suffering, too.
Many, if not infected or quarantined themselves, are worn out and weary. This work is physically and emotionally exhausting and you can see it in their eyes, said Lee Ann Blue, Chief Nursing Officer & Executive Vice President of Patient Care Services at Eskenazi Hospital.
But for thousands of frontline healthcare workers, a shot of hope is now here in the form of a COVID-19 vaccine.
Hospitals Plead With Hoosiers to Mask Up As COVID Strains System
(INDIANAPOLIS) – Indianapolis hospitals are warning their patient load is approaching crisis levels, and pleading with Hoosiers to take coronavirus precautions seriously.
COVID hospitalizations statewide are down 11% this month, but Indy hospitals say their numbers haven’t gone down. Even across the state, there are twice as many patients as there were in the pandemic’s first wave in the spring, and five times as many as there were at the low point four months ago.
Hospitals say it’s not just the increased number of patients that’s creating strain on the system. Eskenazi Health chief nursing officer Lee Ann Blue says the patients in the current wave are sicker. And IU Health vice president Michelle Saysana says illnesses are more widespread than the first wave. Back then, she says, IU’s patients were concentrated at its hospitals in downtown Indianapolis and in Avon. Now, all 18 hospitals in the IU system
Health care workers wanting COVID-19 vaccinations crash state website Most of us are viewing these technical issues as positives that the demand for the vaccine is proving to be very, very strong. Author: Rich Van Wyk Updated: 8:28 PM EST December 14, 2020
INDIANAPOLIS Even before the first shipment of COVID-19 vaccine arrived in Indiana Monday, Hoosiers trying to sign up for vaccinations overwhelmed the state s enrollment website. Due to a large amount of traffic, the site is currently down. Check back this afternoon, read the message left by a state department of health worker.
Members of the Indiana Coalition of Patient Safety took the apparent hiccup in stride.