Black Book March 13, 2020
The polling of 240 U.S. hospital managers, physicians and nurses this week uncovers that community hospitals are not adequately staffed, supplied or built to care for the anticipated surge of COVID-19 patients, despite following CDC and public health protocols to identify and evaluate patients who may have contracted the new coronavirus.
Key findings include:
– It is extremely rare to find any American hospital with the physical facilities, such as isolation rooms and available ventilators, to treat multiple COVID-19 patients, considering current patient loads and capacity. When needed, only a handful of hospitals across the entire nation have isolation rooms outside the vicinity of general patient populations to keep uninfected patients and staff well secluded from highly infectious patients.
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