Several California hospitals delay nonemergency surgeries amid fears that surge will continue
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Nurses Waymond Jones (left) and Larry Ngiraswei work with a COVID-19 patient in the intensive care unit at Regional Medical Center in San Jose. The center has canceled nonurgent surgeries amid the surge.Gabrielle Lurie / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Nurse Janessa Deleon puts on gloves before bringing a tablet into the hospital room of a COVID-19 patient so the patient could video-chat with family at Regional Medical Center of San Jose early this month.Gabrielle Lurie / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Radiology clerk Carin Madriaga organizes masks at Regional Medical Center of San Jose. Thanksgiving has been followed by an increase in COVID-19 cases all over California and the Bay Area.Gabrielle Lurie / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
Despite desperate warnings from health officials and pleas from doctors and nurses for people follow coronavirus safety guidelines, one South Bay hospital is totally full, including in their intensive care unit. Our nurses are handling it, they re okay, but I don t know if they can handle for long-term.
There are many explanations for the current nursing shortage.
Joanne Spetz, director of the Institute for Health Policy Studies at UCSF, explains one reason. Traveling nurses, who often fill in the gaps in different locations when there s a shortage, have been grabbed all over the country by different hospitals, and now that California is going into its surges a little bit later than a lot of other states, a lot of the traveling nurses are already in contracts to help out in Michigan and Philadelphia, in Tennessee.
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Central Valley COVID strain could push local hospitals beyond breaking point
Central Valley COVID strain could push local hospitals beyond breaking point
Preparations are underway to handle a surge in ICU patients. But the problems feared in Santa Clara County already exists in other parts of California.
SAN JOSE, Calif. - Preparations are underway in Santa Clara County to handle a surge in intensive care unit patients. But the problems feared for in this county already exists in other parts of California.
Triage tents are being installed outside San Jose’s Good Samaritan Hospital. The coverings will be used as a COVID testing site, to segregate those infected from those who are not. Officials say this hospital has room to handle doronavirus ICU patients from Santa Clara County and beyond.
Updated on December 11, 2020 at 6:47 am
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The number of ICU beds available in Santa Clara County continues to be a moving target as hospitals and the public health department focus both on treatment and testing.
Regional Medical Center, O Connor Hospital and St. Louise Regional Hospital reached full ICU capacity earlier this week, but officials have been quick to point out that full capacity fluctuates. The number of ICU beds available in Santa Clara County continues to be a moving target as hospitals and the public health department focus both on treatment and testing. Robert Handa reports. There’s a pendulum that swings between almost full and full and we are treating patients much more quickly now because we understand how to treat them better, Sarah Sherwood from Regional Medical Center said.