INCIDENT COMMAND UPDATE
Covid testing positivity rate: Indiana’s Covid positivity rate is at 11% and Shelby County’s
positivity rate is 12.1%. Both represent small decreases in the positivity
rate compared to the last few weeks.
MHP Priority Care and MHP Pediatrics walk-ins: Walk-in volumes at both locations have decreased modestly compared to
the last several weeks.
Emergency Department: The Emergency Department saw sixty-five patients yesterday, which is closer
to our pre-pandemic norms than we have been in weeks.
Inpatient unit: While our Emergency Department and outpatient volumes have shown a slight
decrease in the last 48 hours, our inpatient units remain at critical
capacity. Thirty-eight of our forty beds are occupied on our 3rd floor
inpatient unit.
- We had an additional death of an unvaccinated patient due to Covid since Friday.
- We currently have twelve critical care patients on the 3rd floor and seven
of those patients are due to Covid. Of the seven Covid-related critical
care patients, six are unvaccinated.
- We have five patients on ventilators, plus seven additional patients that
are on Vapotherm or BiPap. Three of our five ventilated patients are due
to Covid and none of those patients are vaccinated.
- Sixteen of our inpatients are Covid positive and eleven (69%) of those
inpatients have not been vaccinated.