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everybody is -- we're just seeing a lot right now. >> reporter: appalachian regional health care has 13 facilities across eastern kentucky and west virginia. its entire system now overwhelmed by covid. >> we have no icu beds available across 13 facilities. zero icu beds available. we have 35 patients waiting in our ers for beds. >> reporter: today appalachian regional health care has three regular beds available across it entire system. they have cleared space and made room for 200 beds that sit empty unable to staff them. >> we have applied for fema disaster medical teams at mel of our hospitals. our understanding is right now that louisiana is in dire need and so most of their teams are there, so we are on the list. and once they have availability, we hope that we will be able to get support. >> reporter: the hospital system

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