DEVELOPING: Idaho declares statewide hospital resource crisis amid Covid surge.
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Idaho hospitals are so overwhelmed with the surge in coronavirus cases that doctors and nurses have to contact dozens of regional hospitals across the West in hopes of finding places to transfer individual critical patients.
The need for ICU bed space is affecting a range of patients: those suffering from Covid, as well as people who have had heart attacks or strokes or were involved in accidents, for instance.
Kootenai Health, a hospital in Coeur d’Alene, has already converted a conference room into an overflow Covid unit, started paying traveling nurses $250/hr and brought in a military medical unit.
The hospital received permission from the state to begin rationing care last week.
The hospital received permission from the state to begin rationing care last week.
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