DCH Coronavirus Update 5-25-21
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Hospital Week Celebrations
While National Hospital Week was officially May 9 – 15, DCH is celebrating THIS week with barbecue picnics at all three hospitals. Honoring 2020 Service Award recipients also will be part of the festivities.
Hospital Week is a time to celebrate and thank DCH employees for all they do to serve our patients!
In addition to the barbecue lunch, employees who have reached a DCH service anniversary between Jan. 1, 2020, and Dec. 31, 2020, are invited to walk the red carpet and take a selfie. A total of 516 employees with 7,190 combined years of service will be recognized!
Included are some photos from today’s festivities at DCH Regional Medical Center. Thank you for your service!
COVID-19 Information
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 3:13 p.m. on 5/25/21:
- 9 inpatients within the DCH system who are positive for COVID-19.
- Five or fewer inpatients who are positive for COVID-19 are being treated in the ICU.
- Five or fewer inpatients who are positive for COVID-19 are on ventilators.
- Five or fewer who are positive for COVID-19 are on a BiPAP.
- 8,824 (cumulative) unique positives for COVID-19 tests including results from the ED, triage tent and inpatient. These individuals are not necessarily in the hospital.
- 43,534 (cumulative) unique negatives for COVID-19 at DCH sites.
- 10,705 (cumulative) positive COVID-19 at DCH sites. These individuals are not necessarily in the hospital.
- 83,673 (cumulative) negative tests at DCH sites.
- 3,125 inpatients (cumulative) who were positive for COVID-19 have been discharged.
- 549 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.
- 311 Tuscaloosa County residents (cumulative) who were positive for COVID-19 have died (per the Alabama Department of Public Health).
