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Update: September 16, 2021

—FOR INTERNAL COMMUNICATION ONLY—

REFLECTIONS FROM PASTORAL CARE DIRECTOR KEITH KINCAID

“When we dwell on our past, we are looking at history. When we dwell on our future, we are looking at the things we do not know. But when we dwell on the ways we can help others today, we are living in the day that our Loving Father has made. Allow us, Dear Lord, to dwell in today."

UPDATE FREQUENCY

Our COVID-19 numbers are consistently decreasing, and because of that, weekly email update frequency has been decreased to once weekly on Thursdays through Sept. 30.

ACTION ITEM

  • Employees who borrowed scrubs from Surgical Services to wear during Hurricane Ida and may have accidentally brought them home are asked to bag them and return them to the OR STAT. (These scrubs are not NOHS property; we rent them.)

STATE STATS (SINCE SEPT. 13)

  • 721,795 COVID-19 cases (up 9,221)
  • 13,318 COVID-19 patient deaths (up 262)
  • 1,521 COVID-19 patients hospitalized (down 234)
  • 276 COVID-19 patients on ventilators (down 61)
  • Unvaccinated COVID-19 patients account for:
    • 88% of cases
    • 85% of deaths
    • 88% of hospitalizations.

NOHS STATS (SINCE SEPT. 13)

  • NOMC:
    • 36 COVID-19 patients hospitalized (down 4)
    • 5 COVID-19 patients on ventilators (down 1)
    • 1 COVID-19 patient death (unvaccinated)
  • NORH: 23 patients (0 COVID+) and 3 possible admits
  • Hood: 13 hospitalized (0 COVID+) and 2 employees monitoring at home
  • Tested 37,250 with 1 test pending (up 314)
  • 6,106 positive test results (up 49)
  • 1,596 COVID-19 patients recovered (up 68)

STAFFING & VOLUME

  • We have resumed business as usual in all areas given the downward trend in COVID-19 numbers for NOHS and Louisiana.
    • Medical staff have been notified that we have resumed performance of elective procedures.
    • All Urgent Care locations have resumed regular hours of operation, which are 7 a.m.-8 p.m. seven days per week.
    • We are off of diversion for everything.
    • All clinics are business as usual with two in temporary locations:
      • Dermatology at the Surgical Associates/Trauma/IR Clinic
      • Northshore ENT at North Oaks ENT & Allergy Clinic.
  • We are reinstating our original visitation policy, which allows non-COVID-19 patients to have multiple visitors between the hours of 7 a.m.-9 p.m. at NOMC and 7 a.m.-8:30 p.m. at North Oaks Rehabilitation Hospital seven days per week. Visitors must mask and don proper PPE as appropriate. IMPORTANT EXCEPTION: COVID-19 patients cannot have visitors unless it is end-of-life.
  • Staffing is good today with supplementation from SNAP and agency nurses.
  • Employee Wellness returned 17 staff members back to work since Sept. 23. Currently, 16 employees are out monitoring symptoms at home (5 RNs; 0 RTs).
  • Today’s Surgical Services schedule includes:
    • 24 NOMC cases
    • 30 Surgery Center cases
    • 5 Cath Lab cases
    • 6 Endoscopy cases.
  • Urgent Cares collectively cared for 276 patients and administered 170 COVID-19 vaccines since Sept. 23.
  • ER COVID Infusion served 47 patients yesterday.
  • Drive-thru COVID-19 testing has served 56 patients since Sept. 13. They started today with 8 appointments scheduled.
  • Supply levels are good.

OTHER

  • Dr. Peltier is scheduled to call in to Tangi 96.5 FM at 7:10 a.m. to provide COVID-19 Updates as follows for the remainder of the month: Friday, Sept. 17; Thursday, Sept. 23; and Thursday, Sept. 30. We will share “in case you missed it” posts of the interviews to social media and northoaks.org on each scheduled date.

The next pandemic update will be emailed Thursday, Sept. 23.