The Chatham-Kent Health Alliance (CKHA), in partnership with Chatham-Kent EMS, accepted its first patient transfer from the Greater Toronto Area to help ease critical care pressure on the wider health care system, hospital officials announced of Tuesday, April 20, 2021.
Hospitals across the province continue to rely on the leadership of the Provincial Critical Care Command Table and the practice of transferring patients out of hotspot regions in response to all-time high COVID-19 hospitalizations and Intensive Care Unit (ICU) admissions, hospital officials added.
“It is our duty and moral obligation to help our neighbours during this difficult time,” stated Lori Marshall, president and CEO of the CKHA, in a media release.
“I’m proud of our staff and physicians at CKHA for their dedication to saving lives across our province. Please do your part to help us weather this third wave by following all public health and lockdown measures.”
Currently, CKHA’s ICU occupancy sits at 50 per cent capacity… five of ten beds are occupied, hospital officials say.
There are two COVID-19 positive patients in hospital and one is a non-Chatham-Kent resident.
Based on direction from the province, CKHA continues to “ramp down” non-urgent, elective/scheduled care and procedures to accept patient transfers from other regions with a quick turnaround time (i.e. within hours, not days).
Like all hospitals across Ontario, beds at CKHA are a provincial asset, hospital officials added.
