DCH Coronavirus Update 4-14-22

Update April 14, 2022

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. If the inpatient total reaches zero then “Five or fewer inpatients” will change to “No inpatients.”

DCH Health System internal counts as of 4:10 p.m. on 4/14/22:

• Five or fewer* inpatients within the DCH system who are positive for COVID-19.
• No inpatients who are positive for COVID-19 are being treated in the ICU.
• No inpatients who are positive for COVID-19 are on ventilators.
• 14,733 (cumulative) unique positives for COVID-19 tests including results from the ED, triage tent and inpatient. These individuals are not necessarily in the hospital.
• 58,605 (cumulative) unique negatives for COVID-19 at DCH sites.
• 18,082 (cumulative) positive COVID-19 at DCH sites. These individuals are not necessarily in the hospital.
• 132,692 (cumulative) negative tests at DCH sites.
• 5,075 inpatients (cumulative) who were positive for COVID-19 have been discharged.
• 887 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.