Still, daily hospitalization figures haven’t reached last year’s Sept. Hospitalizations shot up exponentially in July and August as the delta variant spread. That’s six times more than July 1, when there were just 40 COVID-19 patients hospitalized statewide. As of Tuesday, there were 241 coronavirus patients in Hawaii hospitals, up 10% from the day before. Tim Wright/Civil Beat/2021Ĭoronavirus-related hospitalizations are also rising. Hilo Medical Center’s intensive care unit is full. “Right now hospitals are really stretched across all the islands because they are already full and the COVID count continues to climb,” Raethel said. Now, there are between 2,100 and 2,200 patients in Hawaii hospitals, including at least 1,900 non-COVID patients, Raethel said. Hilton Raethel, president and CEO of the Healthcare Association of Hawaii, said that while Hawaii hospitals were inundated with COVID-19 patients in the early stages of the pandemic, they had far fewer people hospitalized for other reasons, with fewer than 2,000 total patients statewide at this time last year. The influx is prompting some hospitals to set up triage tents while the state is bringing in more than 500 nurses and other medical staff from the mainland as reinforcements. Hawaii hospital resources and staff are more stretched than they’ve been at any other point in the pandemic, prompting Hawaii to bring in more medical staff from the mainland to handle the growing COVID-19 cases and other patients.
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