Hospitals

At St. Luke's Hospital in Chesterfield, patient techs, nurses and therapists are working twice their normal hours and trying to avoid burnout during a pandemic with no end in sight. Hospital leaders say that they soon won’t have enough staff to care for patients, and health workers have been pushed to their emotional and physical brink.

Missouri tops 4,000 deaths Tuesday as University of Kansas Health System officials say further restrictions may need to be enacted.

In spring, the region's largest hospital systems put a moratorium on elective procedures and surgeries. But another freeze could prove financially devastating for hospitals overwhelmed with coronavirus patients and short-staffed.

Hospitals in the St. Louis region admitted nearly 100 coronavirus patients on Wednesday. It’s the second day in a row hospitals in the St. Louis Metropolitan Pandemic Task Force have set a record for daily admissions.

Regional St. Louis hospitals are bearing some of the burden of the rise in rural coronavirus cases. Doctors are worried that could strain capacity as the virus starts spreading more in St. Louis and St. Louis County.

The region’s hospitals could soon be overwhelmed with patients as more people are admitted to the hospital with the coronavirus, health officials said Monday. An average of 342 patients with confirmed coronavirus cases are in hospitals in the region’s four largest health care systems each day, and nearly 50 people with the virus are being admitted daily.

If hospitals are still treating a large number of coronavirus patients when the weather cools and the flu begins circulating, they could be overwhelmed by an influx of additional sick people. Hospitals typically see a large increase in hospitalizations during the winter months from people sick with influenza and other respiratory diseases.

St. Louis-area hospitals admitted 66 new coronavirus patients on Monday. That marked the highest single-day count since mid-April. New hospital admissions have only risen above the 60-person mark three times previously, and all those days were at the beginning of the pandemic.

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