Albert C. Gross: A retired longshoreman, he loved to fish and adored his family myedmondsnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from myedmondsnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA
Dr. Jeison Recinos checks on Jose Luis Andrade Moscoso, who is suffering from COVID-19 at Olive View-UCLA Medical Center in Sylmar, Calif., on Jan. 11, 2020. Supervising RN Mesfin Meshesha, left, cares for another COVID-19 patient in the same room. (Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times/TNS)
California hospitals teeter on edge of ‘last-resort’ guidelines for care
LOS ANGELES Covid.-19 is continuing to put immense strain on health care systems throughout California, pushing some hospitals perilously close to a tipping point where officials may have to decide which patients should receive scarce resources, and which shouldn’t.
This bleak outcome, referred to as crisis care, has yet to occur and is “a last-resort environment,” according to Carmela Coyle, president and chief executive of the California Hospital Association.