DCH Coronavirus Update 9-10-21
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Update Sept. 10, 2021
President Biden Announces Mandated COVID-19 Vaccination for Health Care Workers
Yesterday afternoon President Joe Biden announced that “employers with 100 or more employees (are) to ensure their workforce is fully vaccinated or require any workers who remain unvaccinated to produce a negative test result on at least a weekly basis before coming to work.”
Details of the plan are included on the White House website on a page called “Path Out of the Pandemic.” The plan indicates that hospitals that receive Medicare and Medicaid (DCH and most hospitals fall into this category) are included in the mandate. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will develop the parameters for the vaccination mandate in hospitals including timing.
More details can be found here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/covidplan/.
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 12:39 p.m. on 9/10/21:
- 151 inpatients within the DCH system who are positive for COVID-19.
- 38 inpatients who are positive for COVID-19 are being treated in the ICU.
- 20 inpatients who are positive for COVID-19 are on ventilators.
- 13 inpatients who are positive for COVID-19 are on BiPAP.
- 10,763 (cumulative) unique positives for COVID-19 tests including results from the ED, triage tent and inpatient. These individuals are not necessarily in the hospital.
- 49,304 cumulative) unique negatives for COVID-19 at DCH sites.
- 13,149 (cumulative) positive COVID-19 at DCH sites. These individuals are not necessarily in the hospital.
- 100,361 (cumulative) negative tests at DCH sites.
- 3,754 inpatients (cumulative) who were positive for COVID-19 have been discharged.
- 655 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.
