COLUMBUS, Ind. — Columbus Regional Health has converted a main hallway located on the hospital’s first floor into a spill-over triage area and is delaying some non-emergency surgeries in a scramble to free up beds and reallocate staff as hospital resources remain strained and COVID-19 cases soar to never-before-seen heights.
On Friday, hospital officials said the spill-over triage area would be used to evaluate and potentially treat less severe patients to open up space in the emergency department, which has been overwhelmed with a record-high number of patients as of late. So far, the hospital has not needed to use the new triage space, but officials said they “are not seeing any let up in this influx of patients.”
“We do anticipate that these next two to three weeks are going to be really rough,” said CRH spokeswoman Kelsey DeClue.
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