Idaho is getting ready for crisis standards health care rationing. Here s what to know Audrey Dutton and Chadd Cripe, The Idaho Statesman
Dec. 12 The Idaho Board of Health and Welfare on Friday voted to finalize how Idaho would set in motion the crisis standards of care, otherwise known as health care rationing or triage.
The new rule authorizes Idaho Department of Health and Welfare Director Dave Jeppesen to activate the crisis standards, if Idaho s health care system becomes fully overwhelmed as the pandemic rages out of control. It s our hope, and my hope, that we never have to activate crisis standards of care, Jeppesen said Friday. But in the unfortunate circumstance that we did, we want to be prepared with a legally solid process of how to do that.
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BOISE â Idahoâs top public health leaders on Friday cleared the way for state officials to impose crisis standards of care if the number of COVID-19 patients increases so much that the stateâs already strained hospitals wind up completely overwhelmed.
Idaho Board of Health and Welfare members approved the temporary rule giving Department of Health and Welfare Director David Jeppesen the authority to enact the standards whenever needed.
The move, if enacted, would direct hospitals to use limited resources to provide potentially life-saving treatment to the patients most likely to survive, using a scoring system that takes into account the ages of the patients, how healthy their organ systems are and other factors.
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