Keara Klinepeter, the acting health secretary, also said the state this week hopes to finalize locations of 'decompression sites' to help overloaded hospitals.
Susquehanna Township EMT Operation Chief Bob Smith moves his ambulance closer to the house where they picked up a patient during a call in Dauphin County, Pa., Jan. 6, 2022. Mark Pynes | [email protected]’s acting health secretary says “initial data suggest that fewer patients are being admitted [to hospitals] specifically for COVID-19.”
“In talking to healthcare workers and hospital leaders, it is clear that regardless of why they are admitted to the hospital, every patient with COVID-19 places significant strain on healthcare workers because they require additional care and precautions such as isolation and PPE,” Acting State Secretary of Health Keara Klinepeter said in a weekly update on COVID-19 in Pennsylvania.
Cases of patients with other illnesses testing positive for COVID-19 have increased as a result of the ultra-contagious omicron variant, which has infected record numbers of people, but seems to result in milder illness overall. Still, some experts have responded that it’s often difficult to determine and separate the exact impact of COVID-19 in patients who have combinations of illnesses.
Hospitals say one of the problems involves discharging patients to lower levels of care. This causes backups extending to people being kept in the emergency department for many, many hours awaiting an open bed.
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