Collier set a record for the second consecutive week with 4,871, up 72% from the 2,829 cases a week earlier. 7, a 79% jump from the week before of 5,937 cases. State Department of Health data show Lee County with 10,613 cases for the week ending Jan. 3. The steady increase in hospitalizations this past month reflects the surge in the community. NCH had 135 patients Thursday, up from 96 on Jan. Lee Health had 321 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 on Thursday, more than double the 154 COVID-19 patients Jan. Many of the hospitalized patients with the omicron variant have the virus as a secondary diagnosis, but they still must be isolated, and that involves manpower, hospital officials said. NCH had to expand its critical care units.
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“We anticipate that things will get worse.”ĭuring the delta case wave last August, Lee Health hit full operational capacity and beds were placed in vacant offices and storage rooms to handle overflow. “We don’t anticipate that things will get better,” Armando Llechu, chief officer of hospital operations, said at a Tuesday media briefing. View Gallery: Photos: COVID patients, Naples hospital staff amid delta variant surge Peak prediction: Lee Health expects to be at capacity in a matter of weeks as the omicron variant of COVID-19 causes spike in admissionsĬOVID and kids: How the omicron surge is impacting child hospitalizations, school safety The omicron surge is forecast to peak in the next two to three weeks, according to Lee Health. The climbing numbers of employees out sick is hitting at the worst possible time: This is peak visitor season until Easter when hospitalizations rise due to more people in the community, which is compounded by people hospitalized with the virus. Some of the infected employees at NCH have gotten their booster vaccines, meaning these are breakthrough cases and the workers likely have the highly contagious omicron variant, spokesman Shawn McConnell said. Hospitals overwhelmed: Incidental cases and staff shortages make COVID’s next act tough for hospitals Omicron variant fells hospital workers No beds: As COVID-19 surges, there are no hospital beds for others in need of care "With more than two-thirds of our patients beneficiaries of Medicare or Medicaid, we must assure they have access to quality health care by complying with the conditions of participation in the Medicare and Medicaid programs," she said in an email.ĭeSantis on vaccine ruling for health care workers: Florida won't be Biden's 'biomedical police,' DeSantis' office says after Supreme Court ruling Lee Health spokeswoman Mary Briggs said the hospital system has been working toward compliance with the health-care worker vaccine mandate since deadlines were re-established earlier this month. The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the Biden Administration’s mandatory vaccination policy for health care workers employed at facilities that receive federal funding through Medicare and Medicaid, but Florida won’t be enforcing it, a spokeswoman for the governor’s office said Thursday. 30 when 83 employees were sick with the virus, data show. As of Thursday, 71 employees were out with COVID-19. NCH was one of the first hospitals in Florida to adopt a vaccine mandate for its 4,500 employees last August. An updated vaccination rate for the hospital workforce was not available. Lee Health had 300 employees out Tuesday who were infected with COVID-19 or quarantining due to exposure, according to officials with the publicly operated health system.Īs the largest hospital system in the region, Lee Health has nearly 14,500 employees and does not mandate they be vaccinated, although 70% of its workforce were partially vaccinated by late December. 7 it was postponing elective surgeries that require an overnight stay at its four campuses in Lee County.
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Ron DeSantis.Ĭollier County's NCH Healthcare System announced Thursday it is postponing elective surgeries starting Monday to free up hospital beds as COVID-19 spikes. Elective procedures were stopped during the first wave of the pandemic in 2020 by order of Gov. The dominant health care systems in Lee and Collier counties have halted elective procedures as the omicron variant races through the state, which they also did during the delta variant surge last summer. Southwest Florida hospitals are restricting care as they lose high numbers of employees to COVID-19 at the busiest time of the year on top of already critical staff shortages. To stay connected with our comprehensive coverage of COVID-19 in Florida, sign up for our Coronavirus Watch newsletter. DeSantis urges healthy, asymptomatic to forgo COVID-19 testing
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