colorado s emergency medical services just reactivated crisis standards of care, protocols that health care providers assist those who need it most, during public health emergencies. doctors in kansas say they might soon have to do the same. one of those doctors is steven steitz, he s the chief medical officer at the kansas emergency health system. doctor, thank you so much for getting up early with us. we appreciate your time. help us understand what it would take to cross over the tipping point for you to implement the crisis standards of care? you bet. i think our challenge is we obviously have a lot of covid patients, lots of hospitalizations and we re impacted by the coronavirus in our staff. so, we have a lot of people who are out sick. that s even true in our glance services. for example, in our rural access hospitals, great bend hospital, we had a patient in an emergency room, we couldn t get an glance crew to transport that patient