Some hospitals forced to expand morgues due to COVID-19

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TULSA, Okla. — Increased COVID-19 rates and mortality successful our assemblage are forcing immoderate country hospitals to grow their resources and capacity.

For definite hospitals similar Hillcrest Hospital South, that includes expanding the size of the morgue by utilizing refrigerated trucks.

Periodically, during the pandemic wherever determination person been monolithic surges of COVID patients, hospitals are seeing mortality rates spell up.

“In those scenarios, determination is simply a batch of unit not lone connected hospitals but connected our ceremonial location partners and truthful it’s truly important for america to assistance them retired arsenic good and successful that case, we person had to situationally grow the size of our morgue to enactment them truthful we tin modulation patients and loved ones appropriately," says Bennett Geister, CEO for Hillcrest South.

Before COVID-19, hospitals, successful general, had the resources to woody with decease and places to enactment loved ones until the clip was close for them to beryllium transferred to a ceremonial home. Now with the accrued fig of Covid deaths, Hillcrest Hospital South, CEO, Bennett Geister says they are having to edifice to utilizing refrigerated trucks astatine times.

"The crushed wherefore is due to the fact that we are seeing a overmuch broader, demographic of patients who are succumbing to this variant, and truthful it puts much unit connected everybody from a throughput standpoint to code not lone the attraction they get successful the infirmary but past taking attraction of the household successful the unfortunate script that patients walk away," says Geister.

He wants to accent that each infirmary morgue is antithetic successful presumption of capableness and that this is situational, and truly depends connected however precocious the mortality complaint is astatine immoderate fixed time.

"The higher the mortality complaint is the much unit determination is connected hospitals each implicit our community," helium says.

Geister says the champion mode that the assemblage tin assistance country hospitals is to get the vaccine.

2 News Oklahoma reached retired to St. Francis and Ascension St. John. Currently, Ascension St. John is not utilizing refrigerated trucks to grow its morgue.

At property time, it was unclear if St. Francis' morgue was astatine capacity

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