DCH Coronavirus Update 2-24-22

Update Feb. 24, 2022

Revised Visitation Policy

Effective tomorrow, Feb. 25, DCH is modifying its COVID-19 visitation restriction policy. Most areas are staying the same for now but there are two significant modifications.

Starting tomorrow, up to two support people may accompany a non-COVID-19 patient in the Emergency Department once the patient has been placed in a private room. Up until this change only one has been allowed.

The second change will allow one support person, in areas as outlined, per day for COVID-19 positive patients or patients who are suspected of having COVID and are awaiting a test result. The support person must use, at all times, approved personal protective equipment during the visit.

The full policy can be found at https://www.dchsystem.com/covid-19/visitation-policy/.

COVID Update

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 Health System internal counts as of 3:35 p.m. on 1/24/22:

• 36 inpatients within the DCH system who are positive for COVID-19.
• Five or fewer inpatients who are positive for COVID-19 are being treated in the ICU.
• Five or fewer inpatients who are positive for COVID-19 are on ventilators.
• 14,654 (cumulative) unique positives for COVID-19 tests including results from the ED, triage tent and inpatient. These individuals are not necessarily in the hospital.
• 57,174 (cumulative) unique negatives for COVID-19 at DCH sites.
• 17,958 (cumulative) positive COVID-19 at DCH sites. These individuals are not necessarily in the hospital.
• 128,316 (cumulative) negative tests at DCH sites.
• 4,984 inpatients (cumulative) who were positive for COVID-19 have been discharged.
• 872 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.