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MHP Covid - 19 update - November 11; info on vaccine distribution expected next week

  • UPDATES FROM INCIDENT COMMAND:
    • Shifting staff resources:  We currently have a total of 23 employees off work and not all of those are due to Covid.  Effective Monday, November 16th, we are shifting some qualified, clinical staff to other departments due to the increase in inpatient COVID+ patients.  This will cause a temporary disruption in our cardiac rehab department.  We are doing this because of increases in volumes which requires more staff to care for our inpatients, and not because we feel we cannot perform cardiac rehab services safely. 
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    • Rapid Covid testing:  Priority Care has the ability to perform rapid Covid tests.  Results are available in as little as 20 minutes, but it is only available to patients who have Covid symptoms and present within the first 5 days of the onset of symptoms.  Priority Care is open 7AM-7PM Monday through Friday and 8AM-2PM on Saturdays and Sundays.  
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      • Our current turnaround times are 3-4 days for the non-rapid tests that are sent to the State’s testing facility. 
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    • Priority Care:  Priority Care is very busy currently and seeing between 75-80 patients per day on the urgent care side.  The majority of patients are presenting with Covid-like symptoms.
    • Covid vaccine:  We are supposed to receive data, including information on vaccine distribution as soon as next week.  We will continue to update as more information becomes available.      
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    • Hospitals on diversion:  Many hospitals in Indianapolis and in our neighboring counties are currently full and are diverting patients to other hospitals due to lack of inpatient bed capacity.  MHP is not currently on diversion, but we are getting close.     

 

 

  • MHP TESTING STATUS:
    • Number of NEW positive results: 61 new positive cases since 11/9/2020
      • Out of the 61 new positive cases, 9 patients required inpatient care and 52 remained outpatient. 

 

 

  • MHP INPATIENT STATUS:
    • Current number of 3rd floor inpatients:  36 and 7 of those patients are in the Critical Care Unit (CCU)
      • Number of available 3rd floor beds: 4
    • Currently, we have 24 inpatients that tested positive 
    • Number of inpatients in the 1st floor ACC unit: 7 with 15 beds available and none of these are patients that have positive or suspected COVID.   

 

  • MHP EMERGENCY DEPT STATUS:
    • Number of total ER patients in last 24 hours: 66.  We have 7 patients right now, which is very manageable compared to our norm.   

 

  • VENT STATUS:
    • Number of vents currently in use and number of vents available:
      • We have 4 ventilators in use and 3 BiPAP in use, 0 trilogy units are in use.  This leaves us with 13 ventilation units available.  

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