A rising amount of COVID-19 patients in Elkhart County is placing a strain on Elkhart General Hospital.
Dr. Michelle Bache, vice president of medical affairs for Elkhart General Hospital, said, “We are literally at capacity. We do not have any more room to go here.”
Transfers could be a reality for Elkhart.
“We had a big spike in the COVID activity in the area,” Bache said. “Basically, over the past month it’s been creeping up and really over the past week it has increased dramatically. For instance, our census for COVID patients, the number that we have in the hospital today is basically three times higher than it was a month ago. And our deaths have also increased. So, if you look at the total number of deaths we had around Labor Day, we’ve gone up 40 percent since then.”
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