Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont claims Danbury Hospital is already at overcapacity.
Posted on 03/16/2020 9:05:50 PM PDT by Perseverando
Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont claims Danbury Hospital is already at overcapacity.
Two hundred nurses employed by an interstate health system in New York and Connecticut have been out of work since potentially being exposed to coronavirus patients, a report said.
The health care workers from Nuvance Health will remain sidelined until they can obtain coronavirus tests to determine if they were infected, according to the Hartford Courant, citing Gov. Ned Lamont.
Lamont was discussing the dire situation at Danbury Hospital, which he said was “at capacity,” on MSNBC’s “All In With Chris Hayes” when he made the shocking revelation.
“Well I can tell you, Danbury Hospital is already at capacity. And they have 200 nurses on furlough because they were in contact,” Lamont told host Chris Hayes.
The hospital is treating the state’s first coronavirus patient. A staffer there, who resides in New York, had also tested positive for the virus last week.
It’s unclear if all the furloughed nurses are based solely at Danbury Hospital. But, according to the Hartford Courant, they all work for Nuvance Health system, which is comprised of seven hospitals in western Connecticut and New York’s Hudson Valley region.
“If I can test those nurses, I can potentially get them back into the game a lot sooner,” Lamont said Monday night.
“We’ve got a surge in use, demand is going up and I’m losing nurses by the day who have to furlough themselves for a period of time. That’s a priority for testing for me.”
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Smooth move.
Lamont was discussing the dire situation at Danbury Hospital, which he said was “at capacity,”
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Not good.
I’m guessing that they’re trying to get those nurses through it and back to work before the estimated peak at around 4 or more weeks from now.
Is this just a liberal early wolf crier?
Entirely possible I'm missing something here ...
How many COVID19 patients are there?
Inquiring minds want to know!
Hospitals everywhere run closer to capacity than you might think. “surges” aren’t built into their operating model.
Adding to the confusion, the article seems to suggest that the hospital only has one COVID-19 patient.
Yet they're at capacity?
A surge of one patient?
They have my prayers. Lord help our healers.
Furloughed? As in unpaid furlough?
Well, the important thing is that the Governor made it to be on the Chris Hayes show /S
And that’s the weakness in the American system. We can bring a lot of medical resources to an individual, but we’re not designed for mass intense treatment.
200 nurses furloughed over one patient?
Hospitals usually run at about 85-95% capacity this time of the year anyway...and they probably have a good amount of “suspected’/isolation room” type patients waiting on results of a COVID-19 test.
Maybe the others are different type flu patients with pneumonia?
“maximum pain” orders kicking in.
Someone has to make sure the paperwork is in order. This is proof that health care costs often don’t involve actual health care.
because most people with the virus aren’t getting tested?
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