Ida and COVID-19: ‘Twin-demic’ slams Louisiana hospitals
3 years, 3 months ago

Ida and COVID-19: ‘Twin-demic’ slams Louisiana hospitals

Associated Press  

— The wind ripped chunks off the hospital’s roof and the entire building rumbled. “The mental stress on our employees is much worse now than it’s ever been,” said Richard Zuschlag, the owner of Acadian Ambulance Service, the state’s largest emergency medical outfit. “You couldn’t even have a patient pass away before the room needed to be used,” said Phyllis Peoples, president and chief executive officer of Terrebonne General. “And some of our docs in there said, ‘Are there happy moments here at all?’” Health care workers are now seeing whole families fall critically ill due to the highly communicable nature of the delta variant and the region’s low vaccination rate. “It’s a difficult time for the nurses,” said Chabert’s house supervisor, Jeanie Songe, a longtime nurse who is in charge of logistics such as shift changes and hospital transfers.

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As COVID beds fill, hospitals struggle with burnout among doctors, nurses and staff
3 years ago

As COVID beds fill, hospitals struggle with burnout among doctors, nurses and staff

LA Times  

Twins Natalie Balli, left, and Linda Calderon, background right, 71, in a COVID-19 unit at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Los Angeles on Friday. “There is no medical school class that can prepare you for this level of death,” said Dr. Jacqueline Pflaum-Carlson, an emergency medicine specialist at Henry Ford Health System in Detroit. Dr. Steve Stites, chief medical …

Coastal area hospital resumes full service, weeks after Ida
3 years, 2 months ago

Coastal area hospital resumes full service, weeks after Ida

Associated Press  

— A hospital in a coastal Louisiana area hit hard by Hurricane Ida resumed inpatient services Friday, including critical care and surgical services. The Leonard J. Chabert Medical Center in Houma, part of the Ochsner Health system, celebrated the reopening by having more than 100 physicians, nurses, staff members and the Nicholls State University band greet patients arriving by ambulance, …

Ida and COVID-19: ‘Twin-demic’ slams Louisiana hospitals
3 years, 3 months ago

Ida and COVID-19: ‘Twin-demic’ slams Louisiana hospitals

Associated Press  

— The wind ripped chunks off the hospital’s roof and the entire building rumbled. “You couldn’t even have a patient pass away before the room needed to be used,” said Phyllis Peoples, president and chief executive officer of Terrebonne General. “And some of our docs in there said, ‘Are there happy moments here at all?’” Chabert hospital’s chief nursing officer, …

Louisiana hospitals hit by storm evacuate dozens of patients
3 years, 3 months ago

Louisiana hospitals hit by storm evacuate dozens of patients

Associated Press  

— Louisiana hospitals in the path of Hurricane Ida were forced to evacuate dozens of patients after the storm left them with pieces torn off their roofs, and water leaking down walls to pool on floors as they relied on emergency generators for electricity. Ochsner Health, which runs Louisiana’s largest hospital network and had about 15 hospitals in Ida’s path, …

Ida slams Louisiana hospitals brimming with virus patients
3 years, 3 months ago

Ida slams Louisiana hospitals brimming with virus patients

Associated Press  

NEW ORLEANS — Southern Louisiana’s hospitals, already packed with coronavirus patients from a fourth surge of the virus, were dealing Sunday with another challenge — the howling Category 4 hurricane pounding the coast. John Bel Edwards told The Associated Press on Sunday that more than 2,400 COVID-19 patients are in Louisiana hospitals, saying the state was in a “very dangerous …

COVID-19 looms over rescue efforts amid storm’s devastation
3 years, 3 months ago

COVID-19 looms over rescue efforts amid storm’s devastation

LA Times  

New Orleans firefighters assess damages as they look through debris Monday after a building collapsed from the effects of Hurricane Ida in New Orleans. “We really need our hospitals more than anything else to come back up so that people in ICUs can receive the lifesaving care they need,” he said — including COVID patients on ventilators. “I’ll be honest …

Rescue efforts begin after Hurricane Ida hits US | See Photos
3 years, 3 months ago

Rescue efforts begin after Hurricane Ida hits US | See Photos

India Today  

A fearsome Hurricane Ida left scores of coastal Louisiana residents trapped by floodwaters and pleading to be rescued Monday while making a shambles of the electrical grid across a wide swath of the state in the sweltering, late-summer heat. All of New Orleans lost power right around sunset Sunday as the hurricane blew ashore on the 16th anniversary of Katrina, …

Another virus surge brings more misery to Louisiana hospital
3 years, 4 months ago

Another virus surge brings more misery to Louisiana hospital

Associated Press  

— Lauren Debroeck slowly leans in closer to her husband’s face, hoping this might be the day he wakes up after nearly a month. “Even if we’re falling apart.” The bedside vigil is playing out in a Shreveport hospital that is packed with patients from across Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas and overwhelming medical staff, who describe crying on the way …

Overwhelmed by COVID-19: A day inside a Louisiana hospital
3 years, 4 months ago

Overwhelmed by COVID-19: A day inside a Louisiana hospital

LA Times  

COVID-19 patient Joan Bronson walks across her hospital room with the help of a physical therapist at Ochsner Medical Center in Jefferson, a suburb of New Orleans, on Aug. 11, 2021. “Sunday was supposed to be my day off with my kids, but we need help here, and one day I want to be able to tell those two little …

‘There are only so many beds': COVID-19 surge hits hospitals
3 years, 4 months ago

‘There are only so many beds': COVID-19 surge hits hospitals

Associated Press  

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Florida hospitals slammed with COVID-19 patients are suspending elective surgeries and putting beds in conference rooms, an auditorium and a cafeteria. “We are seeing a surge like we’ve not seen before in terms of the patients coming,” Dr. Marc Napp, chief medical officer for Memorial Healthcare System in Hollywood, Florida, said Wednesday. There are only so …

January 5, 2021 coronavirus news
3 years, 11 months ago

January 5, 2021 coronavirus news

CNN  

Overflowing hospital morgues, increased 911 wait times, beds only opening when patients die. The surge of new coronavirus cases and hospitalizations is pushing hospitals in Los Angeles County to the “brink of catastrophe,” a top health official there said. “Hospitals are declaring internal disasters and having to open church gyms to serve as hospital units,” Supervisor Hilda Solis said, calling …

Minneapolis doctor wipes away tears in describing Covid-19’s toll on hospital workers
4 years, 1 month ago

Minneapolis doctor wipes away tears in describing Covid-19’s toll on hospital workers

CNN  

CNN — Dr. Shirlee Xie took care of five patients with Covid-19 the last time she worked at her Minneapolis hospital. “The wife got sicker and sicker and she died in the hospital, and her husband had to watch her die, and so he had to see that fear and that grief,” Dr. Xie said, wiping away tears, in an …

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