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Record numbers are hospitalized, in ICU, and on ventilators By Crystal Staley/Sebastian Kitchen Frankfort, KY - On Monday, August 23, 2021, Gov. Andy Beshear visited health care heroes at the Franklin County Health Department and signed a proclamation to recognize the start of Health Care Heroes Appreciation Week in the commonwealth. He encouraged businesses, schools, communities, churches, families and more to celebrate the health care heroes around them as well. "Despite the challenges, our health care heroes are doing what they always do: Providing the best, most compassionate care possible to Kentuckians in need," said Gov. Beshear. "But they need our help now, and the work they've been doing for us all deserves to be respected and supported in every way we can." Today, Gov. Beshear also announced record numbers of Kentuckians with COVID-19 who are hospitalized, admitted to the ICU and on ventilators, and health care leaders shared what they are experiencing in their hospitals. "For our inpatient census of COVID patients, we have doubled in one week. And our curve appears to be getting sharper," said Dr. William Melahn, chief medical officer at St. Claire HealthCare. "We've made the very difficult decision to move to code yellow, which is our disaster plan. There's two reasons to be vaccinated. One is to protect you, and the other is to protect people around you. Let me just point out a little bit of reality: If we had another disaster happen right now - even a small one - we don't have any reserve left. So if we had a bus accident, an influenza outbreak or anything else, I'm not sure what we would do." "It's a nightmare to try to staff these surge units, and it's not just COVID patients that we have at the hospital right now. It's a lot of other critically ill patients. So when you throw COVID patients on top of that, it makes it doubly hard to staff," said Lerae Wilson, vice president of patient service and chief nursing officer at St. Claire HealthCare. "We are going to overcome this, but it is going to take a monumental effort. It doesn't matter how many nurses, therapists, physicians, pharmacists or anything else we have, it is not going to be enough for this surge," said Steve Haines, RN, BSN, RRT and nursing director of critical care services at Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical Center. "Right now, this looks like there is no end. The only chance we have is vaccination." "In the past three weeks, we have seen the number of COVID-19 patients in our health care organization quadruple. We are seeing younger patients that are sicker. They are filling up our hospital beds, backing up patients in the emergency department, and we are getting to the point where it us going to be hard to deliver emergency care to those who need it," said Dr. Jason Smith, M.D., chief medical officer of UofL Health. "I urge everyone in Louisville and the commonwealth, please, step up and get the vaccine for yourself, your families and the communities around you." "Like the Governor, I agree there is one thing we can't do enough of during these times, and that is to thank our caregivers for all they are doing for the men, women and children in our communities," said Mike Yungmann, senior vice president, Mercy Health, and market president, Paducah and Irvine. "I'm in awe daily of the truly heroic work of our nurses, doctors and care teams to care not just for patients, but for each other, especially as we see the number of COVID-19 cases rise again." COVID-19 Case Information Update
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