Wednesday morning, UMMC was caring for 72 confirmed COVID-19 patients, 15 of those in the adult ICU and four in the pediatric ICU 13 patients being investigated for COVID-19 and nine patients no longer contagious, but not well enough to return home. This is not a good place to be.” Woodward, left, speaks to media during a news conference Wednesday on the UMMC campus.
LouAnn Woodward, vice chancellor for health affairs and dean of the School of Medicine and UMMC’s COVID-19 incident commander.
We’re holding patients in the Emergency Department, and in the recovery rooms after surgery, because they are waiting for a bed,” said Dr. We have been most of the summer, honestly. Main Content Unvaccinated Mississippians driving hospitals, front-line caregivers to breaking pointīy: Ruth Cummins, and more unvaccinated people sickened by COVID-19’s Delta variant are turning to the University of Mississippi Medical Center for life-saving care – but staffing and bed shortages are at a critical level on track to only get worse, UMMC leaders warn.
