Vitalité hospitals at 96.4% capacity, some of Horizon's at or over 100% as COVID cases spike
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Vitalité Health Network's hospitals have reached 96.4 per cent capacity and the Horizon Health Network is at 93 per cent of normal capacity at its five largest hospitals Thursday, as COVID-19 cases continue break daily and overall pandemic records in New Brunswick.
Seventy per cent of all intensive care beds across the province are occupied, the government's COVID-19 dashboard shows.
There are 26 people hospitalized with COVID, 15 of them in intensive care, Public Health reported Wednesday.
Vitalité announced an "alert level increase" at all of its facilities Wednesday, and new COVID-19 preventive measures aimed at "preserving the offer of care and reducing pressure on the health system."
"We must be ready to face an increase of COVID-19 hospitalizations in the days and weeks to come," president and CEO Dr. France Desrosiers has said in a statement.
Vitalité wants to reduce the number of admissions to reach a maximum hospital occupancy rate of 85 per cent and "free up staff for COVID-19 patients," the release said.
Some services may need to be temporarily reduced.
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