Samaritan’s Purse COVID-19 field hospital to open Wednesday
COVID-19 patients have been receiving care inside a 32-bed Samaritan’s Purse field hospital since Wednesday. The second field hospital to open in less than a week at UMMC, it joins a 20-bed federal field hospital opened Friday for low-acuity COVID-19 patients. The two field hospitals, housed in parking garages, are a resource for UMMC and the state’s other hospitals during the surge of COVID-19’s Delta variant.
Published on Tuesday, August 17, 2021
‘It’s unrelenting’: Rising pediatric COVID-19 cases stress full children’s hospital
Children’s of Mississippi is seeing increasing numbers of otherwise healthy children who are seriously ill with COVID-19, but other cases at the state’s only children’s hospital, anything from routine illnesses and injuries to rare conditions, aren’t decreasing.
Published on Monday, August 16, 2021
ED patient crush logjams health system
People from across Mississippi are descending on UMMC’s Adult Emergency Department in desperate need of the higher level of care offered by the state’s sole academic medical center. But when all beds are full and exhausted front-line staff are overwhelmed by the record number of COVID-19 patients coming in the door, its disaster mode.
Published on Monday, August 16, 2021