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Despite the decrease in hospitalizations arkansas hospitals are struggling

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to provide icu beds for kobe nineteen patients tonight we're digging deeper into the

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lack of resources to meet this demand channel seven's peers...spoke to

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...help medical center getting an inside look into the reality.

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For the first-time since the start of the panoramic arkansas had a point where we had no covert icu beds

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available in the state but it takes a lot more than just the bed to take care of patients

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wish I wish I wish I could review inside these walls but you see the compassion

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love provided to these families into these patients nonstop marathon for the

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health care professionals across the state since the start of...you got

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a marathon runners who can finish the race the race is over after it we've been

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run this for eighteen nineteen months now and they're very exhausted...

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race president of baptist health greg crane says...agreement with the state at a total of one

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hundred and fifty seven additional beds across arkansas twenty one of them in the west region

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were created to hear the rest were met search and also

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...central region fifty those were

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...surgeon...group here so got to provide a balance

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...the state but I see beds are different than regular critical care beds...capable

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beds require negative airflow the air is actually...buildings you gotta say

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care environment for the next patient over or for the nurses are critical care beds require

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to nurses per vet...they've got a team working to bring in the staff needed to get the extra beds

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online from outside of the state of nursing has always been an area

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about twenty seven years there's been

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a shortage this crisis is just exacerbated that significantly

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crane says several nurses have left the hospitals and gotten out of nursing or taken different

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routes since the start of the pandemonium having additional nurses...therapist...the

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...some burn out-of-work extra shifts which, you know,

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continue to work to exhaust...crane says

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also need critical care physicians terminologists internal medicine people work

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...services nutrition security in clinical engineering to get

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more beds online and functioning the heart rate of any hospital is

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nurses but there's a lot of support systems around those nurses

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...cared the patient's bedside that is health got eight critical care beds operating

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...past week another ten will be online in north little rock on monday

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...pairs and baptist self also has volunteering opportunities they're looking to fill through

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their foundation of course you can find out more on our website aka tv dot com.