DCH Coronavirus Update 7-30-20

Fayette Medical Center Named One of Newsweek’s Best Hospitals in the United States for 2020

Fayette Medical Center, part of the DCH system, was one of two hospitals in Alabama to be named to Newsweek’s Best Hospitals for 2020. Hospitals included in this year’s list were evaluated on three areas: recommendation from peers, patient experience and key performance indicators.

Peer recommendations were taken from results of a survey of doctors and other health care professionals. Patient experience data looked at patient survey topics such as overall satisfaction, likelihood to recommend the hospital to others and satisfaction with quality of care and service. Key performance indicator data reviewed included quality of care and patient safety.

Congratulations to the Fayette Medical Center team!

To see other hospitals that made this year’s list, visit https://www.newsweek.com/best-hospitals-2020/united-states.

Testing and Confirmed Cases

To protect patient privacy, DCH has established a minimum threshold of five for reporting numbers of inpatients with laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19.

DCH internal counts as of 12:20 p.m. on 7/30/20:

• 110 inpatients are being treated for COVID-19.
• 29 inpatients who are positive for COVID-19 are being treated in the ICU.
• 15 who are positive for COVID-19 are on ventilators.
• 2,235 (cumulative) unique positives for COVID-19 tests including results from the ED, triage tent and inpatient. These individuals are not necessarily in the hospital.
• 14,775 (cumulative) unique negatives for COVID-19 at DCH sites.
• 2,880 (cumulative) positive COVID-19 at DCH sites. These individuals are not necessarily in the hospital.
• 19,102 (cumulative) negative tests at DCH sites.
• 540 inpatients (cumulative) who were positive for COVID-19 have been discharged.
• 106 inpatients (cumulative) who were positive for COVID-19 have died at DCH. This is not an indication of the cause of death, only that the individuals were positive for COVID-19 at the time of death.
• 61 Tuscaloosa County residents (cumulative) who were positive for COVID-19 have died (per the Alabama Department of Public Health).