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Longer wait times in hospitals, and a possibility that someone could be turned away for care because there isn't room or resources available are some of the consequences.
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Crisis Standards Of Care—a term we've heard many times in the shadow of the pandemic. These guidelines help health care providers decide who should get life-saving care—like ventilators, ICU beds and staff time. Up until now, it was a worst-case-scenario in hospitals dealing with COVID-19. Now, it's a reality.
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The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare announced in a press release Tuesday morning that it had activated Crisis Standards of Care in two public health districts in North Idaho due to a “severe shortage of staffing and available beds.”
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Idaho’s largest hospital systems predicted they might need to ration health care before the end of 2020, but they haven’t reached that point yet.COVID-19…
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Our health care workers are spread thin and are struggling at times to keep up with the crush of COVID-19 patients filling our hospitals. On Friday, the…
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Idaho health officials have approved a new rule that allows the state to implement crisis standards of care, if necessary, during the coronavirus…
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Medical providers who sit on the committee that wrote Idaho’s framework to ration medical care if it becomes necessary are asking Gov. Brad Little for a…
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Healthleaders in Idaho say if hospital capacity continues to decline, the state may need to activate its “crisis standards of care” plan to ration care.…
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If Idaho runs out of crucial supplies — like ventilators or intensive care units — to treat patients with coronavirus, hospitals and providers will need…