GBMC Coronavirus Patient Has Been Discharged: Hospital

TOWSON, MD — A coronavirus patient who required a ventilator at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center has been discharged, according to the hospital's president. The patient, who had been treated in the intensive care unit at the hospital, was discharged Wednesday night, according to GBMC President John Chessare, M.D.

"We're pausing for a moment of celebration," Chessare said in a YouTube video Thursday morning, after the COVID-19 positive patient who required mechanical ventilation was able to leave the hospital.

Currently, nine GBMC patients have coronavirus disease, or COVID-19, Chessare reported Thursday. Another 25 to 30 people are under investigation for the virus at the facility, he said. Those individuals have had respiratory symptoms and are awaiting results.

"Our emergency department volume has not increased, and the number of patients we are seeing with respiratory symptoms is not increasing" either, Chessare said.

"I want to assure you that GBMC is not letting down its guard," he said. "If there is a significant surge of COVID-19 patients over the next few weeks, we will be ready."

Chessare thanked the emergency department, including nurses, physicians, hospitalists and clinicians who are taking care of the COVID-1.

"They are doing a fabulous job," Chessare said.