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LiberalArkie

(15,686 posts)
Tue Jun 30, 2020, 09:56 PM Jun 2020

Saturated Houston hospitals transferring COVID-19 patients to other cities

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Harris Health Systems, the public health agency that operates Ben Taub and LBJ hospitals, is sending COVID-19 patients to facilities outside of the area in an effort to cope with the growing healthcare crisis.

Charlie McMurray-Horton, the associate administrator for Clinical Integration and Transformation at Harris Health, spoke to ABC13 about the capacity issues affecting Harris Health hospitals this afternoon.

"It really has intensified in the last month or so," said McMurray-Horton. "We are actively trying to transfer out ICU and surge patients that are COVID positive and under investigation, just because we don't have the capacity to treat those patients," McMurray-Horton added.

Harris Health Systems said it has transferred patients to UTMB in Galveston, the Woodlands, and as far away as Conroe. The scramble to find beds for patients also has a trickle down effect.

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Saturated Houston hospitals transferring COVID-19 patients to other cities (Original Post) LiberalArkie Jun 2020 OP
Kick & recommend for visibility bronxiteforever Jun 2020 #1
when the rural communities start getting slammed Skittles Jul 2020 #2
Galveston, Woodlands, and Conroe - TBF Jul 2020 #3

Skittles

(152,964 posts)
2. when the rural communities start getting slammed
Wed Jul 1, 2020, 04:03 AM
Jul 2020

what are they gonna do? They cannot rely on the city resources they so despise.

TBF

(31,919 posts)
3. Galveston, Woodlands, and Conroe -
Thu Jul 2, 2020, 03:28 PM
Jul 2020

all within an hour of Med Center. When they start transferring to Lubbock we're in real trouble.

That said, I had been watching those TMC charts for weeks and a few days ago they froze the charts, took 3 days to "redesign" after Abbott threw a fit and cut off elective surgeries (which kills the profit for the big private hospitals). Now all the hospital CEO's are saying everything is under control and beds are available. I am in the suburbs south of Houston and just bracing myself for the deaths to come.

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