With COVID-19 surging through Connecticut, local hospitals have found themselves in a position they’d hoped they could avoid: low on capacity and planning for what happens if they run out.
“I don’t think the general public has a sense of what it looks like inside the hospitals right now,” said Dr. Tom Balcezak, chief clinical officer at the Yale New Haven Health System. “We are busy. We are caring for 450 more patients than we normally would at this time of year, and that does put pressure on the system.”
State hospitals are currently using about 73% of their total capacity and 56% of their intensive-care capacity, Connecticut Hospital Association CEO Jennifer Jackson said Tuesday.