![]() ![]() Hart Van Denburg/CPR News Longmont United Hospital Intensive Care nurse Stephanie Chrisley speaks to other nurses and supporters Dec. I mean, he flat out told me we can't even do it because of too many COVID patients,” she said. That was her reaction when her doctor told her that her hernia surgery would be postponed for weeks.Ĭullen said he told her the hospital was too busy dealing with coronavirus patients. ![]() What I said to the doctor was ‘f****** idiots, who won’t get vaccinated,’” said Diann Cullen, a 72-year-old retiree from Broomfield. “Frustration, extreme frustration, actually anger, because I said a bad word. Hospitals are under tremendous strain and that means delays and changes from normal care, as strapped providers do more with less.Īnd the situation for some patients is affected by others. “I mean, it's just wrong.”īurch’s situation is not uncommon this fall, as the state faces its second-worst COVID-19 surge for hospitalizations and deaths. “It's really frustrating because I did the right thing and like so many other people have, and we're being just kind of like told, unless you have a really serious problem, like a heart attack, a stroke, you're going to have a baby or, something like that, we really don't have time to mess with you,” Burch said. And 84 percent of hospitalized COVID-19 patients are not. But the rate of those with one dose in Delta County is 57 percent. Half of the state’s hospitals said they anticipated a staffing shortage in the next week more than a third of them anticipated ICU bed shortages in the next week.Īnd behind those numbers, patients are feeling the impact.īurch’s doctor told him he could go to the ER, but he might have to wait hours, perhaps with people who have flu or COVID-19 symptoms. As of Wednesday, 1,419 patients were hospitalized with COVID-19. Hospitals on the Western Slope have been slammed for weeks, and the statewide picture is similarly grim. But he says, as of today, Delta County hospital is clear full. ![]() He says he hasn’t eaten anything substantial in three weeks.īurch had to wait that long to be seen by a primary care doctor. He said the doctor told him, “if things were different, I would tell you to go to the hospital and be diagnosed, have some tests run and see what's going on with you. ![]()
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