DCH Coronavirus Update 9-7-21

Update Sept. 7, 2021

Moment of Silence

Today at noon the DCH Health System joined health care workers and community members across the state to remember the more than 12,000 COVID-19 related deaths in Alabama, those who are currently sick with the disease, their families, and the health care workers who have tirelessly worked to care for them. Click here for a brief video showing some of the DCH team members who took time to reflect and remember. https://youtu.be/FUdYuwDbzj0

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 2:06 p.m. on 9/6/21:

• 162 inpatients within the DCH system who are positive for COVID-19.
• 39 inpatients who are positive for COVID-19 are being treated in the ICU.
• 31 inpatients who are positive for COVID-19 are on ventilators.
• 13 inpatients who are positive for COVID-19 are on BiPAP.
• 10,651 (cumulative) unique positives for COVID-19 tests including results from the ED, triage tent and inpatient. These individuals are not necessarily in the hospital.
• 49,043 cumulative) unique negatives for COVID-19 at DCH sites.
• 13,020 (cumulative) positive COVID-19 at DCH sites. These individuals are not necessarily in the hospital.
• 99,476 (cumulative) negative tests at DCH sites.
• 3,692 inpatients (cumulative) who were positive for COVID-19 have been discharged.
• 647 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.