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The Henry County Health Center in Mount Pleasant is one of the state s 82 critical access hospitals. It has just 25 beds. Smaller, rural hospitals like this were easily overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients during surges.
A year into the pandemic, COVID-19 has put an enormous strain on Iowa’s health care system, from the influxes of COVID patients to staffing shortages and budget crunches. Iowa hospitals and health care workers reflect on living with COVID-19 a year in.
Joel Wells said the worst moments at rural Wayne County Hospital came last fall, when COVID-19 hospitalizations were spiking statewide.
Wells, a family physician in the third decade of his career, said he had nine COVID-19 patients. That’s a lot for a 25-bed rural critical access hospital in south central Iowa.