Dr. Rick Hildebrant:
There’s positively a degree of exhaustion amongst employees.
I believe we’re higher poised than different locations, in that we now have had comparatively good staffing by way of most of this. The final a number of months have been actually difficult with each nursing employees and doctor employees. There may be positively a sense of fatigue. The numbers have been excessive for some time. Even earlier than we had been seeing this most up-to-date COVID surge, the quantity of delayed care that has required inpatient hospitalization was very excessive.
And so as to add a COVID surge on prime of that, we now have seen volumes at our hospital that we now have actually by no means seen earlier than, each within the acute care house within the medical surgical beds, but in addition within the ICU. And that may be actually difficult when the ICU beds are fully crammed in a hospital corresponding to ours.
Sadly, it isn’t simply our hospital. It is also the hospitals round us. It is our tertiary companions which are additionally taxed by this. And our capacity to switch sufferers has been restricted. So it has been very arduous on employees, for positive.
We now have a really optimistic angle on this hospital. It is an upbeat, can-do angle, nevertheless it has been very taxing on many individuals.
