Closed hospital doors hide Hungary’s healthcare crisis.
Many hospitals have so few qualified staff that some wards are simply closed off to patients.
Direkt36’s latest investigation reveals that this leads to serious problems in healthcare.
#hospitalbeds — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #hospitalbeds, aggregated by home.social.
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From boardrooms to beds: Can empty offices ease hospital overcrowding?
#Canada #Healthcare #HospitalCrisis #OfficeConversion #HospitalBeds #PublicHealth #Innovation #Infrastructure #MedicalStaffShortage #Health #Economy #EmptyOffices #HealthCareCrisis
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As the Houston region continues to cope with widespread power outages in the aftermath of Hurricane Beryl, the NRG Center is serving as a medical shelter for patients who have been discharged from hospitals but cannot safely return home.
#HarrisCounty #HealthScience #Houston #Hurricane #Local #MedicineWellness #News #Texas #Beryl #HospitalBeds #HurricaneBeryl #HurricaneBerylAftermath #SETRAC #TexasDivisionOfEmergencyManagement
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How the nursing shortage is affecting the health-care system, patients and nurses themselves
#Canada #Health #Nursing #Healthcare #Nurses #Hospitals #Burnout #HospitalBeds #HealthcareSystem #NursingShortage #HealthCareCrisis #PatientSafety #NurseRetention
https://the-14.com/how-the-nursing-shortage-is-affecting-the-health-care-system-patients-and-nurses-themselves/ -
Emergency department crowding has gone beyond hallways onto ambulance ramps. Now there’s nowhere left to wait.
#Health #Hospitals #HealthCare #EmergencyDepartments #Emergency #Ambulance #Paramedics #HallwayMedicine #HospitalBeds
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CW: COVID Situation in Switzerland
#COVID infections in #Switzerland are currently declining slowly, even though they are stagnating among the 80+ and slowly increasing in :ch_Vaud:, :ch_Tessin: and :ch_Geneve:.
At the rate that the 70+ are receiving the booster, by the end of the year about 40 % will have received a booster within the last 9 months.
And the number of occupied hospital beds is at an all-time high, although this is not solely due to acute COVID infections.
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#Ontario hospitals are now required to charge a mandatory fee of $400 per day to discharged patients who refuse to go to a #longtermcare home arranged on their behalf. A #Charter challenge is being contemplated. #alternatelevelofcare #ALC #hospitalbeds Read the #CBC article here: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-elderly-forced-nursing-home-bill-7-challenge-1.6659119