Geisinger is operating at 110 percent capacity in its nine hospitals located in central and northeastern Pennsylvania, with most COVID patients unvaccinated.
Geisinger, one of Pennsylvania's largest health systems has run out of beds due to the COVID surge, causing patients to wait 10 to 20 hours in the emergency department, officials said Wednesday.Geisinger is operating at 110 percent capacity in its nine hospitals located in central and northeastern Pennsylvania. A quarter to over half of admissions are unvaccinated COVID patients, Dr. Jaewon Ryu, Geisinger's president and chief executive officer, said.
Geisinger's president and CEO Dr. Jaewon Ryu expects the situation at Geisinger hospitals to worsen in the coming weeks, citing the increasing number of cases and percentage of positive tests. In this photo, mobile tents set up to handle the recent influx of flu cases stand outside the Lehigh Valley Health Network's main hospital campus January 11, 2013 in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Pittsburgh-based UPMC, Pennsylvania's largest health network, said its COVID-19 census has been going up rapidly since early November. In addition to the rising virus patient count, UPMC hospitals are seeing more patients who had put off care. Dr.
"We want to make these stories come to an end," said Reed, begging people to get their coronavirus shots"so we're not taking our turns crying in the med closet over unnecessarily watching patients die."
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