Bay Area hospitals accepting transfer patients with medical facilities overwhelmed
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KTVU s Ann Rubin reports.
SAN JOSE, Calif. (KTVU) - The latest COVID surge has sparked a new level of cooperation amongst hospitals in the region. Medical facilities are sharing everything from advice to equipment.
As ICU beds filled up in Santa Clara County, other facilities like Stanford Medical Center stepped up to help.
Since November, hospitals have taken 607 transfer patients from other hospitals in need.
When there are places where there s nowhere else left for ICU patients to go, finding a way to make that work here is kind of our job, said Dr. Ryan Ribeira, Assistant Medical Director of the Emergency Department at Stanford.