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Carson Tahoe Health COVID-19 update: Hospital adds temporary staffing as it steadily nears capacity

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Nevada has recently been recognized as the state with the highest number of hospitalizations per capita in the country. This matches the surge of COVID-positive patients we are seeing and the increase in hospitalizations.

Carson Tahoe Health is steadily functioning at near capacity daily. The activation of our surge plan allows us to safely care for increasing volumes of patients. With the plan comes further changes to business as usual.

Carson Tahoe Health has 188 licensed acute care beds, excluding our 62 behavioral health beds. In order to care for the influx of hospitalized patients, we have stopped all non-essential surgeries and reassigned other procedures to be done elsewhere.

This allows us to utilize non-traditional areas within our facilities to provide safe care for additional inpatients.

Over the past few weeks, our average daily inpatient census has been running at 182 and over the last 7 days, our ER has fluctuated between 85 and 134 patients per day.

With the holidays here, increasing hospitalized patients, and the steady strain on our frontline workers, Carson Tahoe has brought on additional staffing resources to allow a respite for our employees who are working tirelessly to take care of our community.

The health and safety of our patients and staff is our top priority so maintaining and strengthening our resources is crucial for the long haul. Non-emergent and elective surgeries continue to be postponed until further notice, allowing us to fully utilize staffed bed capacity and handle increased volumes.

Our visitor restriction policy remains active with few exceptions. We are monitoring this fluid situation daily to assure specific needs are being addressed and that our patients are being cared for in the best possible way. We, along with the rest of Nevada’s healthcare workers, are asking our community to help stop the spread of COVID-19 by doing your part to protect yourself and others.


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