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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://disabled.social/users/beadsland/statuses/112018231277961908">"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics. (beadsland@disabled.social)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Mar-2024 09:59:09 JST</a><a href="https://disabled.social/@beadsland" title="beadsland@disabled.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/237868-48-20240124234947.webp" width="48" height="48" alt='"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.' style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.</a><div><a href="https://disabled.social/@beadsland/112011563207850455" rel="in-reply-to">in reply to</a></div></section><article><p>"Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)…continues to struggle daily with unprecedented overcrowding – particularly in its Emergency Department (ED)."</p><p>Statistics, as always, are structural.</p><p>Data reported to HHS don't include ED patients awaiting inpatient beds. Moreover, weekly data can easily obscure daily overcrowding.</p><p>If MGH can be in 16-month unprecedented crisis w/out ever topping 100% reported capacity, just imagine degree of crisis in hospitals ≥100%.</p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/2790684#notice-5532071">In conversation</a><time datetime="2024-03-05T09:59:09+09:00" title="Tuesday, 05-Mar-2024 09:59:09 JST">Tuesday, 05-Mar-2024 09:59:09 JST</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://disabled.social/@beadsland/112018231277961908" rel="external" title="Sent from disabled.social via ActivityPub">disabled.social</a></span></span><a href="https://disabled.social/@beadsland/112018231277961908">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/2335613">Chart: Unprecedented Capacity Crisis: Massachusetts General
Data: U.S. Dept of Health and Human ServicesLine chart showing: (blue line) staffed adult inpatient beds; (red line) occupied adult patient beds; and (yellow line) inpatient capacity level.Annotations:December 2020: Mass. General sheds a quarter of their staffed beds.Staffed beds aren’t a measure of furniture. This is teams of medical professionals that were there to care for patients, and then… weren’t.[Blue line drops from around 1,200 to around 900.]December 2021: Governor Baker mobilizes National Guard to help hospitals with Omicron.[Blue line jumps by about 100 for less than a month.]“For the past 16 months, the MGH ED has operated nearly every day in ‘Code Help’ or ‘Capacity Disaster’ status, which represents critical levels of ED crowding.”
~ Press Release, Jan. 19, 2024“‘Code Help’ occurs when inpatient beds and monitored hallway stretchers are full,” states the press release. Yet weekly capacity level, per data reported to HHS by MGH never peaked above 96% after Dec 2022.Press release continues: “‘Capacity Disaster” is triggered when the ED is full, all hallway stretchers are being used and there are more than 45 inpatients boarding in the ED awaiting a hospital bed” Yet weekly average data reported to HHS never reflect this.</a></label><br><a href="https://assets.disabled.social/media_attachments/files/112/018/227/446/877/465/original/cb8b93f041d4768e.png" rel="external">https://assets.disabled.social/media_attachments/files/112/018/227/446/877/465/original/cb8b93f041d4768e.png</a></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics. (beadsland@disabled.social)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Mar-2024 09:59:09 JST "You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.
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"Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)…continues to struggle daily with unprecedented overcrowding – particularly in its Emergency Department (ED)."
Statistics, as always, are structural.
Data reported to HHS don't include ED patients awaiting inpatient beds. Moreover, weekly data can easily obscure daily overcrowding.
If MGH can be in 16-month unprecedented crisis w/out ever topping 100% reported capacity, just imagine degree of crisis in hospitals ≥100%.
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1. Chart: Unprecedented Capacity Crisis: Massachusetts General Data: U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services Line chart showing: (blue line) staffed adult inpatient beds; (red line) occupied adult patient beds; and (yellow line) inpatient capacity level. Annotations: December 2020: Mass. General sheds a quarter of their staffed beds. Staffed beds aren’t a measure of furniture. This is teams of medical professionals that were there to care for patients, and then… weren’t. [Blue line drops from around 1,200 to around 900.] December 2021: Governor Baker mobilizes National Guard to help hospitals with Omicron. [Blue line jumps by about 100 for less than a month.] “For the past 16 months, the MGH ED has operated nearly every day in ‘Code Help’ or ‘Capacity Disaster’ status, which represents critical levels of ED crowding.” ~ Press Release, Jan. 19, 2024 “‘Code Help’ occurs when inpatient beds and monitored hallway stretchers are full,” states the press release. Yet weekly capacity level, per data reported to HHS by MGH never peaked above 96% after Dec 2022. Press release continues: “‘Capacity Disaster” is triggered when the ED is full, all hallway stretchers are being used and there are more than 45 inpatients boarding in the ED awaiting a hospital bed” Yet weekly average data reported to HHS never reflect this.
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