"Unprecedented" numbers coming into Community Health emergency rooms

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Community Regional Medical Center and Clovis Community Hospital are experiencing an "unprecedented" fig of patients successful their exigency rooms.

"The measurement of patients is similar, really much than erstwhile we took attraction of patients during COVID times," exigency medicine physician/ main exigency medicine astatine UCSF Fresno, Dr. Danielle Campagne said. "The bully happening close present is our ICUs are not full."

The Community Health System says the influx successful patients began successful December-citing galore viruses arsenic portion of the issue.

"A batch of patients are conscionable sicker, truthful erstwhile they get a tiny virus, it tips implicit erstwhile you person chronic lung disease, bosom problem, oregon cancer, truthful it makes a sicker population, and they travel to the hospital, and that's not a speedy discharge," Dr. Campagne explained.

Patient hold times whitethorn alteration depending connected severity and whitethorn not ever beryllium placed successful a backstage room.

"Patients tin expect that sometimes they're going to beryllium successful a hallway oregon chair, but the aforesaid resources, the physicians, nurses are going to travel dainty them successful that attraction area," she stated.

They besides inquire anyone with insignificant complaints similar a cough oregon runny chemoreceptor to spot their superior attraction doc oregon sojourn urgent attraction alternatively than the ER.

"The exigency section is simply a precious assets successful our nine and community; we privation to support that. Save that for the strokes, bosom attacks and the accidents," she said.

The infirmary besides advises if you are feeling sick, enactment home.

That is the champion mode to debar spreading immoderate imaginable viruses to others that could pb them to a infirmary visit.

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