Health & Fitness
Health Leaders, Hospital CEOs Warn Of COVID ‘Capacity Crisis' For Minnesota Adults And Children
Nearly 900 people are hospitalized with COVID-19, a record high for this year, according to the state's health department data.
October 9, 2021
Top hospital and long-term care industry leaders say that workers are exhausted and leaving the profession at record-levels, creating a staffing shortage of caregivers as cases increase and hospital beds fill up.
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Nearly 900 people are hospitalized with COVID-19, a record high for this year, according to the state’s health department data. Health Commissioner Jan Malcolm described the number of hospitalizations as a “capacity crisis” for both adult and children.
“Across the state, we have more hospitals reporting that they have zero available adult medical/surgical beds and zero adult ICU bed available during this latest surge,” she said. “This are numbers we didn’t see even in the worst of last year’s fall surge.”
Find out what's happening in Across Minnesotafor free with the latest updates from Patch.
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