DCH Coronavirus Update 4-26-22

Update April 26, 2022

COVID Update Moving to Once a Week

While COVID-19 inpatient volumes at DCH have yet to reach zero, they have remained below 10 for over a month. Because of this and after more than two years of daily updates, starting next week the COVID-19 update from DCH will only be provided each Wednesday afternoon. If the COVID-19 numbers rise again the frequency of updates will be reevaluated.

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 4:14 p.m. on 4/26/22:

• Five or fewer* 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.
• 14,744 (cumulative) unique positives for COVID-19 tests including results from the ED, triage tent and inpatient. These individuals are not necessarily in the hospital.
• 58,895 (cumulative) unique negatives for COVID-19 at DCH sites.
• 18,096 (cumulative) positive COVID-19 at DCH sites. These individuals are not necessarily in the hospital.
• 133,504 (cumulative) negative tests at DCH sites.
• 5,083 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.