AdventHealth to transition to green status – WESH 2 Orlando

AdventHealth to transition to ‘green’ status



>> IT HAS BEEN A ROUGH COUPLE OF MONTHS, HERE AT ADVENT HEAH: BUT NOW, THEY ARE BACK TO NORMAL OPERATIONS AND WARNING PEOPLE, NOT TO BE FOOLED INTO THINKING, COVID IS OVER, AGA.IN THERE IS NO FLASHING SIGN, ANNOUNCING IT OUTSIDE ADNTVE HEALTH’S EMERGENCY ROOMBUT THE HOSPITAL SYSTEM, IS BACKO T GREEN STATUS. THIS ESSENTIALLY IS THE INDICATION THAT WE’RE BACK TO NORMALPE ORATIONS. ADVENT HEALTH REACHED A PEAK OF 17-HUNDRED COVID PATIENTINS AUGUST AND MOVED TO BLACK STATUS MEANING NON-EMERGENCY PROCEDURES, WERE DELAY.ED NOW THE HOSPITAL SYSTEM IS DOWN TO UNDER 900 OUR ICU CAPACITY CONTINUES TO IMPROVE THE NUMBER OF PEOP THAT WE’RE TAKING CARE OF AS A SYSTEM OUTSIDE THE ICU IS IMPROVIN >> WHAT ADVENT IS SEEING IS SOAL HAPPENING AT ORLANDOEA HLTH: THE SYSTEM SAID IN LATE AUGUST IT HAD 736 COVID PATIENTS: NOW, IT’S AT 426. THE FLORIDA HOSPITAL ASSOCIAON HAS BEEN KEEPING TABS ON THE NUMBERS STATEWIDE: AT THE WOTRS POINT, 17-THOUSAND FLORIDIANS WERE IN FACILITIES, FOR COVID NOW, PRESIDENT MARY MAYHEW TELLS ME, IT’S CLOSE TO 10-THOUSAND: STILL, A LOT OF PATIENTS. >> BIG REDUCTION, IN OUR PEAK, BUT WE’RE NOW AT WHERE OUR HIGHEST PREVIOUS PEAK WAS IN JULY OF 2020. >> SHE SAYS THE DROP, CABEN CHALKED UP TO COVID’S EBB AND FLOWLU PS, 70-THOUSAND PEOPLE GETTING MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY TREATMENT, WHICH CAN HELP THOSE WHO TEST POSITIVE AVOID BEING HOSPITALIZED. BUT SHE SAYS VACCINES, ARE THE BIGGEST FACTOR. >> WE KNOW THAT THERE E AROTHER VARIANTS OUT THERE, THE REMO THAT WE GET POLAONPU VACCINATED IT IS OUR BEST DEFENSE AGAINST A FUTURE SUR

AdventHealth to transition to ‘green’ status

Effective Sept. 16, AdventHealth’s Central Florida Division will transition to “green” status. This move signals a return to mostly normal operations. AdventHealth currently has 890 inpatients across Central Florida, compared to a peak of 1,700 on Aug. 23. “After seeing our COVID inpatient volumes continue to steadily decline, we are pleased to move to green status, which allows us to resume our non-emergent services that have been on hold for several weeks,” said Dr. Neil Finkler, chief clinical officer of AdventHealth’s Central Florida Division. “We thank our community and patients for their continued support and patience as we ramp up operations and procedures. We ask for our community’s continued support by continuing to mask, practice social distancing and get vaccinated. The vast majority of people hospitalized and seriously ill continue to be unvaccinated.”

Effective Sept. 16, AdventHealth’s Central Florida Division will transition to “green” status.

This move signals a return to mostly normal operations.

AdventHealth currently has 890 inpatients across Central Florida, compared to a peak of 1,700 on Aug. 23.

“After seeing our COVID inpatient volumes continue to steadily decline, we are pleased to move to green status, which allows us to resume our non-emergent services that have been on hold for several weeks,” said Dr. Neil Finkler, chief clinical officer of AdventHealth’s Central Florida Division. “We thank our community and patients for their continued support and patience as we ramp up operations and procedures. We ask for our community’s continued support by continuing to mask, practice social distancing and get vaccinated. The vast majority of people hospitalized and seriously ill continue to be unvaccinated.”