DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Hospital leaders in DFW are confident in their ability to handle a recent spike in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations.
The Dallas Fort Worth Hospital Council said Thursday that despite COVID-19 hospitalizations nearly doubling statewide in recent weeks, using the stand-up hospital run by the NAVY at the Kay Bailey Hutchison in downtown Dallas isn’t needed right now.
Steve Love is the council’s President and values the care patients can get on hospital campuses.
“At a stand up hospital, while it’s certainly good and handles surplus, it limits the acuity level for the patient,” Love said.
According to Love, many hospitals are increasing capacity in the designated COVID-19 units.
“I’ve heard some say we’ve expanded to a few more beds because we have had an increase in COVID patients,” said Love. “It’s not really a surge situation but a volume fluctuation situation.”
He said that if the DFW does experience a surge, all area hospitals have a surge plan in place.
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