Late Wednesday, the Orange County Health Care Agency issued an order suspending the ability of hospitals that take part in the 911 system to request a diversion of ambulances to other medical centers. Dr. Carl Schultz, the agency s EMS medical director, said in a statement that hospital emergency rooms have become so overwhelmed due to the COVID surge that almost all hospitals were going on diversion. If nothing was done, ambulances would soon run out of hospitals that could take their patients, Schultz said. Therefore, we temporarily suspended ambulance diversion. While this will place some additional stress on hospitals, it will spread this over the entire county and help to mitigate the escalating concern of finding hospital destinations for ambulances.
COVID-19: Upper Valley hospitals start giving vaccine to workers
Modified: 12/16/2020 9:44:23 PM
WINDSOR Several hospitals across the Upper Valley began distributing COVID-19 vaccines to health care workers on Wednesday.
Dr. Joseph Perras, CEO of Mt. Ascutney Hospital and Health Center in Windsor, was preparing for a shot in the arm himself on Wednesday afternoon.
An internist, Perras said he is scheduled to provide inpatient care next week.
He was to be one of the first 95 front-line workers and local emergency medical service personnel slated to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in Windsor in the coming days.
“When I get vaccinated, I’m hoping it pushes people who are on the fence to getting it too,” he said in a phone interview.
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Orange County rolls out mobile field hospitals to handle surge in COVID-19 patients
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ORANGE COUNTY, Calif. - Orange County continued to set new records on Tuesday for coronavirus diagnoses and hospitalizations as county officials rolled out mobile field hospitals to handle the surge in patients.
The county logged 2,173 new COVID-19 infections, raising the cumulative case total to 107,937. Hospitalizations jumped from 1,287 Monday to 1,371 Tuesday, including 296 ICU patients, up from 288 the previous day.
OC hospitals requesting mobile units
Orange County continued to set new records for coronavirus diagnoses and hospitalizations as county officials rolled out mobile field hospitals to handle the surge in patients.
UpdatedTue, Dec 15, 2020 at 6:55 pm PT
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In a sign of the herculean effort mounted by Orange County hospitals flooded with coronavirus patients, the county s ICU bed capacity went up Tuesday even as daily COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations set new records (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
SANTA ANA, CA In a sign of the herculean effort mounted by Orange County hospitals flooded with coronavirus patients, the county s ICU bed capacity went up Tuesday even as daily COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations set new records. At the same time, the hospital bed shortage prompted at least one Orange County school district to shut down again.