APA Unveils Tool for Addressing Psych Bed Crisis
The American Psychiatric Association (APA) released a comprehensive report to address the shortage of hospital beds for inpatient psychiatric care during a press conference Tuesday. The report described a predictive modeling tool developed to help hospital groups and other community-based groups determine how many inpatient hospital beds might be needed at any given time. It […]
Tufts Nurses Rally for Children’s Access to Care as Closure Looms
As the shuttering of 41 pediatric inpatient beds at Tufts Children’s Hospital in Boston draws near, nurses rallied on Tuesday over their concern that the closure will severely limit access to care. Though the Tufts Medicine Health System reasoned in its public announcement of the closure that it would convert 41 pediatric inpatient beds at […]
More Than a Nursing Shortage: A ‘Skills Gap’, Too
During the fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals have closed beds, shut down elective surgeries, and called in federal assistance due to a shortage of a critical healthcare resource — nurses. Shortages of nurses and other healthcare workers are plaguing hospitals throughout the U.S., especially those in COVID hotspots. Mississippi has 2,000 fewer nurses […]
‘All the Beds Are Taken’; COVID Baby Airlifted in Texas; Zeke Emanuel as FDA Chief?
Note that some links may require registration or subscription. “All the beds are taken up by COVID victims also getting ECMO,” said Floridian Susan Walker, who is anxiously searching for a hospital where her unvaccinated husband can receive the extracorporeal life support for his severe COVID-19. (CNN) As cases soar and ICU beds fill in […]