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The rationing guidelines had been in place for three public health districts in southern Idaho.
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As our region deals with the highest number of COVID-19 cases we’ve seen since the pandemic started, the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare activated crisis standards of care this morning for all of southern Idaho.
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Health organizations in three regions of Idaho are once again allowed to ration care due to “severe” staffing and blood shortages.
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After more than three months, Idaho health officials have deactivated crisis standards of care for the state’s five northernmost counties.
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The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare has deactivated crisis standards of care for the majority of the state, the department announced Monday morning.
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Idaho health officials have been warning for months that Idahoans might not be able to get the care they need if crisis standards were authorized.Now, people are having to delay surgeries and some are going to incredible lengths to get treatment at great financial cost.
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Dr. Meghan McInerney, Critical Care Director at Saint Alphonsus Hospital in Boise: "We cannot continue to have the every single day increase numbers of COVID that we are seeing and have our health care system survive."
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When hospital workers are overwhelmed by a public health crisis and unable to provide standard care, crisis standards of care dictate who gets what kind of treatment.
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Idaho Department of Health and Welfare Director Dave Jeppesen authorized hospitals statewide to use crisis standards of care if needed as many are buckling under the weight of an influx of COVID-19 patients.
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All hospitals in Idaho are now able to ration medical care due to an overwhelming and unabating surge of COVID-19 patients needing hospitalization.