Hospitals across the state feel that the third Covid boom in Michigan has almost no capacity, with 33 facilities with 90% occupancy or higher.
Beaumont Hospital in Troy is allowed maximum for admissions, with all 530 beds filled Thursday. Covid victims occupied 167 beds, including 30 in intensive care. Three smaller sites abroad also have 100% capacity that day.
Four other hospitals in Beaumont’s eight-city network were 92% to 97% full, as listed below, among a dozen health centers in the Detroit area, having the 33 most in the state.
The 12 nearly complete hospitals in Detroit and its suburbs had 1,200 Covid patients on Thursday, including 185 intensive care units. Beaumont Royal Oak (92% occupancy) had 206 cases of coronavirus. (Last Saturday, we reported that seven Metro Detroit hospitals were at least 90% full.)
“It was awful,” respiratory therapist Mariah Bartholomew of Ann Arbor said on Saturday under a social media link to this article. She works at Ascension Providence in Novi, which had 73 Covid patients on Thursday.
Michigan’s first peak occurred in the spring of 2020 when the plague began to rise nationally, and a second surge struck this state in November and December. Now some hospitals are being shut down again.
A state update Saturday afternoon shows 5,530 newly confirmed virus diagnoses and 69 deaths, including 60 deaths that occurred before Friday.
In the past seven days, positive diagnoses have risen by 28,626 and Covid deaths have climbed by just over 200 for a total of 13,840 months.
“Our public health system is overwhelmed,” said the governor. (Prepandemic stock photo: DepositPhotos)
The Department of Health and Human Services’ dashboard also contains 4,183 adult Covid patients admitted to the hospital, and 59 cases of children. Among the adults, 873 were in intensive care.
More than 19 percent of Michigan hospital beds hold Covid patients, up from 15 percent two weeks ago. The latest Lansing figures show that a confirmed and apparent virus carrier fills almost one-third of intensive care beds.
“Because we see so many cases a day, our public health system is overwhelmed,” the governor’s chief, Dr. Joneigh Khaldun, recently said. “We are unable to obtain information on many matters, nor can we identify their close contacts.”
In Beaumont Health, Susan Grant, Chief Nurse, tells Crain’s in this week’s issue:
‘None of us could have imagined that we would go through the extraordinary difficult time [last year] that we would be here again at the same time this year and that we would work and see so many patients infected with coronavirus. ”
The list below does not exclude Detroit’s 123-bed Karmanos Cancer Center, where only three Covid patients contributed to the 98% occupancy rate. Another local hospital, Henry Ford Wyandotte, had 89% occupancy with 92 Covid patients (20 in intensive care).
And outside the tricounty Detroit region, the St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor at 98% with 74 cases of Covid (14 in the ICU).
Metro Detroit 12 most visited hospitals (April 15)
- Beaumont Troy: 100% vol | 167 Covid patients, including 30 in ICU
- Reception from DetroitUniversity Health Center: 98% | 41 Covid patients, 13 in ICU
- Harper / Hutzel (Detroit Medical Center): 98% | 51 Covid patients, 20 in ICU
- Henry Ford Macomb (Clinton Twp.): 97% | 184 Covid patients, 23 in ICU
- Beaumont Dearborn: 97% | 125 Covid patients, 15 in ICU
- Beaumont Farmington Hills: 95% | 80 Covid patients, 10 in ICU
- Beaumont Wayne: 95% | 35 Covid patients, 6 in ICU
- Henry Ford West Bloomfield: 95% | 63 Covid patients, 4 in ICU
- Ascension Provision, Novi: 95% | 75 Covid patients, 13 in ICU
- Beaumont Royal Oak: 92% | 206 Covid patients, 20 in ICU
- Ascension Macomb-Oakland, Warren: 91% | 97 Covid patients, 19 in ICU
- McLaren Macomb, Mount Clemens: 91% | 77 Covid patients, 12 in ICU