Note: Because data for hospitals with fewer than four patients occupying ICU beds or fewer than four staffed ICU adult beds is redacted, we cannot calculate the percentage of staffed ICU beds.Note: HHS redacted numbers from this hospital because it reported fewer than four staffed ICU beds, fewer than four patients occupying ICU beds or both. “Hospitals have protocols in place to keep patients safe from exposure and to ensure all patients are prioritized for care,” the agency said in December. Without the capacity to take on new patients - and equally thin resources elsewhere to transfer them to - doctors fear they’ll have to start making heartbreaking decisions about care in order to save the most lives possible.Īccording to the federal government, the weekly ICU capacity numbers should not discourage patients from seeking medical care in these facilities. Hospital staff has never been in shorter supply, which deepens the strain on all departments, including emergency rooms, respiratory therapy and even labor and delivery. Here is the latest situation between Friday, Aug.
As the highly contagious delta variant of COVID-19 spreads and sends unvaccinated Texans to the hospital with serious illness, hospitals are under enormous pressure to make room for growing numbers of patients.Įach week, hospitals in Texas report their current ICU bed capacity to the U.S.