DCH Coronavirus Update 12-22-20

Hillcrest HOSA Students Say Thanks to DCH RMC

A group of Hillcrest High School students put their creativity to work on behalf of DCH Regional Medical Center.

Members of HOSA-Future Health Professionals developed handmade cards to thank our frontline workers for their hard work during the pandemic. The cards will soon be distributed to employees across multiple units.

The HOSA program aims to help students become leaders in the global health community through education, collaboration and experience.

DCH RMC and Hillcrest have been Adopt-A-School partners for more than 30 years. Northport Medical Center also participates in the Adopt-A-School program.

Remote Site Testing and Vaccination Holiday Hours

DCH’s COVID-19 screening and testing and vaccination service at its remote site in the Laundry Lot just west of DCH Regional Medical Center will be closed THIS Thursday and Friday (December 24 and 25) for the Christmas holiday as well as Friday (January 1) of next week for New Year’s. The following week the site will be back to its regular hours, Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 8 a.m.–Noon for testing and Monday through Friday, by appointment, for vaccinations.

Testing and Confirmed Cases

To protect patient privacy, DCH has established a minimum threshold of five for reporting numbers of inpatients with laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19.

DCH Health System internal counts as of 3:53 p.m. on 12/22/20:

• 178 inpatients within the DCH system who are positive for COVID-19.
• 31 inpatients who are positive for COVID-19 are being treated in the ICU.
• 10 who are positive for COVID-19 are on ventilators.
• 18 who are positive for COVID-19 are on a BiPAP.
• 6,262 (cumulative) unique positives for COVID-19 tests including results from the ED, triage tent and inpatient. These individuals are not necessarily in the hospital.
• 31,960 (cumulative) unique negatives for COVID-19 at DCH sites.
• 7,586 (cumulative) positive COVID-19 at DCH sites. These individuals are not necessarily in the hospital.
• 54,365 (cumulative) negative tests at DCH sites.
• 1,479 inpatients (cumulative) who were positive for COVID-19 have been discharged.
• 326 inpatients (cumulative) who were positive for COVID-19 have died at DCH. This is not an indication of the cause of death, only that the individuals were positive for COVID-19 at the time of death.
• 150 Tuscaloosa County residents (cumulative) who were positive for COVID-19 have died (per the Alabama Department of Public Health).