Houston Area Hospitals and ERs Are Packed As Patients Return At Pre-Pandemic Levels
Last week, the Houston Press heard from a Missouri City resident who recently had to call an ambulance for his wife because she was having breathing trouble while recovering from a recent surgery. When the ambulance arrived, the EMS worker told him they’d have to take her to St. Luke’s instead of her usual hospital Houston Methodist, because Houston Methodist’s emergency room was full at the moment.
Many might have assumed that the days of packed local hospitals in the greater Houston area would already be behind us given how new COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations have been trending downward for several weeks now, and given the hundreds and thousands of residents who have gotten vaccinated in the past few months.
While local hospital leaders aren’t sounding the alarm about capacity concerns, we heard a similar story from leaders at St. Luke’s and Houston Methodist: hospital beds and emergency rooms are regularly filling up as both health systems continue to manage coronavirus patients on top of all the folks finally heading to the hospital for care they may have delayed due to the pandemic, all while the number of patients coming into local emergency rooms is already hitting pre-COVID levels
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