Overwhelmed San Bernardino County Hospitals Set Up Outdoor Tents To Handle Patient Influx

By CBSLA Staff, CBS Los Angeles

December 11, 2020 at 9:16 am

APPLE VALLEY (CBSLA) – Hospitals in San Bernardino County who are feeling the stress brought on by the surge of coronavirus patients have been forced to add outdoor space.

Arrowhead Regional Medical Center in Colton, one of San Bernardino County’s biggest trauma centers, is now using tents in its parking lot for low-acuity patients to make more space in the ICU. The hospital ran out of ICU beds on Wednesday night.

“We’re drowning in COVID patients right now, and we’re literally kind of up to our neck,” Dr. Troy Pennington, a physician at the Colton hospital, said.

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