DCH Coronavirus Update 12-29-20

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 Friday (Jan. 1) for New Year’s. Next 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 4:03 p.m. on 12/29/20:

• 160 inpatients within the DCH system who are positive for COVID-19.
• 36 inpatients who are positive for COVID-19 are being treated in the ICU.
• 20 who are positive for COVID-19 are on ventilators.
• 25 who are positive for COVID-19 are on a BiPAP.
• 6,633 (cumulative) unique positives for COVID-19 tests including results from the ED, triage tent and inpatient. These individuals are not necessarily in the hospital.
• 32,586 (cumulative) unique negatives for COVID-19 at DCH sites.
• 8,023 (cumulative) positive COVID-19 at DCH sites. These individuals are not necessarily in the hospital.
• 55,970 (cumulative) negative tests at DCH sites.
• 1,990 inpatients (cumulative) who were positive for COVID-19 have been discharged.
• 346 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.
• 155 Tuscaloosa County residents (cumulative) who were positive for COVID-19 have died (per the Alabama Department of Public Health).