Nearly one-third of Jackson-Madison County General Hospital s patients are there due to the coronavirus.
The hospital reported treating 189 COVID-19 patients Wednesday, 34 of whom it considers to be in the recovering stage of infection. The total sets a new COVID-19 hospitalization high for the facility.
Tina Prescott, the COO of West Tennessee Healthcare, said the hospital is still trying to limit the number of patients it receives as its census nears capacity. We monitor it on a case-by-case basis, Prescott added. But our hospital is not open to those already in another facility because of the volume and census of patients coming in through our emergency department.