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Utah hospitals could start rationing health care at overwhelmed facilities, hospital association says https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/26/health/utah-hospitals-care-rationing-covid/index.html
(CNN)Utah hospitals could be days away from using a patient's age, health and other factors to decide who can remain in overcrowded intensive care units due to an onslaught of Covid-19 cases.
A group of administrators representing Utah's hospitals presented Gov. Gary Herbert with a list of "criteria they propose doctors should use if they are forced to decide which patients can stay in overcrowded intensive care units," The Salt Lake Tribune reported.
They told Herbert that they'd need to put the criteria in place if the coronavirus trend continues, Greg Bell, president of the Utah Hospital Association, told the Tribune.
To triage care, the proposal would take into account a patient's age, health, situation and ability to survive, Bell told CNN affiliate KUTV on Sunday night.
"At the end of the day, some senior person, versus some healthy young person, probably would not get the nod," Bell said.
Bell said Utah is suffering from a "phenomenal case growth and spread rate" of Covid-19.
The state reported more than 1,000 new cases per day for the last 12 days. On Sunday, Utah had its highest seven-day average for new daily cases, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, more than 104,882 people in Utah have been infected with coronavirus, and at least 572 people have died.
Even before a formal rationing of health care, one Utah mother who suffered a heart attack was delayed in getting adequate treatment due to the Covid-19 surge.
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I'm just going to say one thing about the possibility of Utah rationing health care, this is just the very tip of the iceberg and it will be a nationwide approach unless we get this under control and do it soon. I hope we all understand what health care rationing means.
(CNN)Utah hospitals could be days away from using a patient's age, health and other factors to decide who can remain in overcrowded intensive care units due to an onslaught of Covid-19 cases.
A group of administrators representing Utah's hospitals presented Gov. Gary Herbert with a list of "criteria they propose doctors should use if they are forced to decide which patients can stay in overcrowded intensive care units," The Salt Lake Tribune reported.
They told Herbert that they'd need to put the criteria in place if the coronavirus trend continues, Greg Bell, president of the Utah Hospital Association, told the Tribune.
To triage care, the proposal would take into account a patient's age, health, situation and ability to survive, Bell told CNN affiliate KUTV on Sunday night.
"At the end of the day, some senior person, versus some healthy young person, probably would not get the nod," Bell said.
Bell said Utah is suffering from a "phenomenal case growth and spread rate" of Covid-19.
The state reported more than 1,000 new cases per day for the last 12 days. On Sunday, Utah had its highest seven-day average for new daily cases, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, more than 104,882 people in Utah have been infected with coronavirus, and at least 572 people have died.
Even before a formal rationing of health care, one Utah mother who suffered a heart attack was delayed in getting adequate treatment due to the Covid-19 surge.
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I'm just going to say one thing about the possibility of Utah rationing health care, this is just the very tip of the iceberg and it will be a nationwide approach unless we get this under control and do it soon. I hope we all understand what health care rationing means.
