DCH Coronavirus Update 9-4-20

Regions Bank Provides Lunch

Thank you to Regions Bank its generosity through its “Share the Good” campaign. Elizabeth Winter and Floresha Watkins Woodall, from Regions Bank, delivered 300 Chick-Fil-A box lunches to Bryan Kindred, President/CEO of The DCH Health System, for DCH employees.

Regions Bank, thank you for your continued support and generosity to the DCH team. #strongertogether

Gifts of Love to Fayette Long Term Care

This week Fayette Medical Center’s Long Term Care (LTC) residents and employees were blessed with gifts of love from Bethabara Baptist Church and DCH volunteers.

DCH volunteers made activity blankets for the residents. Bethabara gave each resident a balloon that reads hugs and prayers and attached to each was a small goodie bag. To each LTC employee the church provided a card, a Mr. Goodbar and lunch!

Thank you DCH volunteers and Bethabara Baptist Church!

Remote Site Testing Hours

DCH’s COVID-19 screening and testing service at its remote site in the Laundry Lot just west of DCH Regional Medical Center will be closed next Monday (Sept. 7) for Labor Day. After Monday the site will be back to its regular hours, weekdays, 7–11 a.m.

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 internal counts as of 2:00 p.m. on 9/4/20:

• 51 inpatients are being treated for COVID-19.
• 19 inpatients who are positive for COVID-19 are being treated in the ICU.
• 11 who are positive for COVID-19 are on ventilators.
• Five or fewer who are positive for COVID-19 are on a BiPAP.
• 2,973 (cumulative) unique positives for COVID-19 tests including results from the ED, triage tent and inpatient. These individuals are not necessarily in the hospital.
• 19,356 (cumulative) unique negatives for COVID-19 at DCH sites.
• 3,837 (cumulative) positive COVID-19 at DCH sites. These individuals are not necessarily in the hospital.
• 27,167 (cumulative) negative tests at DCH sites.
• 831 inpatients (cumulative) who were positive for COVID-19 have been discharged.
• 160 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.
• 102Tuscaloosa County residents (cumulative) who were positive for COVID-19 have died (per the Alabama Department of Public Health).

18-24 Demographic Information

• 3.4 percent of those 18-25 who tested positive for COVID-19 have needed inpatient care at DCH.
• 5.1 percent of women 18-25 who tested positive for COVID-19 have needed inpatient care at DCH.
• 1.2 percent of men 18-25 who tested positive for COVID-19 have needed inpatient care at DCH.