DCH Coronavirus Update 12-17-21

Update Dec. 17, 2021

COVID-19 Vaccination Site

The DCH remote vaccination site will be closed on Dec. 24 and 31 in observance Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve. Instead, the remote site will be open to provide vaccines on Thursday, Dec. 23 and 30. In Jan. 2022 the site will return to providing vaccines on Fridays. To register for a vaccination visit https://www.dchsystem.com/covidvaccine/.

COVID Update

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 11:11 a.m. on 12/17/21:

• 18 inpatients within the DCH system who are positive for COVID-19.
• 5 or fewer inpatients who are positive for COVID-19 are being treated in the ICU.
• 5 or fewer inpatients who are positive for COVID-19 are on ventilators.
• 12,108 (cumulative) unique positives for COVID-19 tests including results from the ED, triage tent and inpatient. These individuals are not necessarily in the hospital.
• 55,558 (cumulative) unique negatives for COVID-19 at DCH sites.
• 14,554 (cumulative) positive COVID-19 at DCH sites. These individuals are not necessarily in the hospital.
• 117,867 (cumulative) negative tests at DCH sites.
• 4,294 inpatients (cumulative) who were positive for COVID-19 have been discharged.
• 776 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.