>>JENNIFER WAUGH: STARTING TODAY, BAPTIST HEALTH WILL RESTRICT
ITS VISITATION PEOPLE WILL NO
LONGER BE ALLOWED TO VISIT
ADULT PATIENTS AND IF YOU OR A
FAMILY MEMBER HAVING SURGERY
THERE ARE NEW RULES
ABOUT VISITORS. DOCTOR
ELIZABETH RANSON IS THE
EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT CHIEF
PHYSICIAN EXECUTIVE FROM
BAPTIST HEALTH JOINING US
THIS MORNING. GOOD MORNING,
THANKS FOR BEING WITH US
APPRECIATE IT. GOOD MORNING.
THANK YOU SO WOULD YOU EXPLAIN
THE NEW RULE ABOUT VISITORS WHO
HAVE A FAMILY MEMBER SCHEDULED
FOR SURGERY.
SURE SURE
SO RESTRICTING VISITATION AS IS
NOT SOMETHING THAT THAT WE TAKE
LIGHTLY AND
>> WITH THE INCREASING NUMBERS
THAT WE’RE ALL SEEING HERE
LOCALLY AND CERTAINLY WITH IN
OUR SYSTEM. WE’RE REALLY
CONCERNED ABOUT THE SAFETY OF
OUR PATIENTS AND AND THAT’S WHY
WE NEEDED TO MOVE TO WE’RE
RESTRICTED
VISITATION SO TO YOUR QUESTION
FOR SOMEONE WHO IS HAVING
SURGERY. VISITOR CAN COME WITH
THAT WITH TOP PERSON ON.
INITIALLY WHILE THE PATIENT IS
HAVING THE SURGERY
AND THEN UNTIL AFTER ONCE A
SPOKEN WITH THE SURGEON AND
STAFF AND NOT PATIENT HAS.
SUCCESSFULLY OUT OF OUT
OF SURGERY.
>>JENNIFER WAUGH: SO THEN THEY
NEED TO LEAVE AND THEN JUST
YEAH BACK TO PICK HER EX
EXAMPLE, HER ACT HOW DOES THIS
APPLY BECAUSE THIS IS A
QUESTION THAT WE GET ALL THE
TIME TO WOMEN
GIVING BIRTH FOR ONE AND THEN
ALSO YOU ARE YOU WANT TO BE
THERE TO VISIT THE
NEW BABY.
>> SURE EXACTLY EXACTLY SO FOR
IN OUR L THE RP LOCATIONS LABOR DELIVERY RECOVERY AND POSTPARTUM. ONE VISITOR IS
ALLOWED NOW THAT CAN BE.
PARTNER RELATIVE TO DO A LOT.
SO THERE WILL BE THERE WILL BE
ONE FOR PATIENTS WHO ARE
LABORING OR WHO HAVE JUST
GIVEN BIRTH.
>>JENNIFER WAUGH: AND IF THAT
PERSON LEAVES CAN ANOTHER COME
FOR EXAMPLE, YOU HAVE A LARGE
FAMILY THEY WANT TO COME AND
SEE THE BABY OR IS IT PRETTY
MUCH JUST THAT ONE RUNS
ALLOWED. WELL WE DO HAVE ONE
DESIGNATED VISITOR PER DAY.
SO THIS MORNING WE’VE GOT SOME
NEW DATA FROM THE FLORIDA
AGENCY OF HEALTH CARE
ADMINISTRATION
THAT SHOWS 95 OUT OF THE
STATE’S
207 ICY USE EITHER HAD LIMITED
BEDS AVAILABLE OR NONE
AT ALL HERE IN NORTHEAST
FLORIDA. IT ALSO SAYS THAT 9
OUT OF OUR AREA’S 20 ICY USE
FALL INTO THAT CATEGORY WE
SHARE THAT WITH OUR VIEWERS AT
THE TOP OF THE HOUR. THE STATE
AS WE KNOW DOES
NOT RELEASE AND THAT DATA IF
THE PATIENTS TAKING THOSE ICU
BEDS ARE SICK WITH
COVID-19
DOES CHALLENGES HAVE ENOUGH I
SEE USED TO TREAT PATIENTS
RIGHT NOW.
>> YES, WE DO
AND IT’S CERTAINLY A VERY
FLUID SITUATION AS I’M SURE
EVERYONE IS AWARE AND OUR
NUMBERS OF PATIENTS WHO ARE
POSITIVE WITH COVID
ARE INCREASING. MOST OF THOSE
PATIENTS DO NOT REQUIRE
TREATMENT IN THE INTENSIVE CARE
UNIT. SO THAT’S A DIFFERENCE
FROM WHAT WE SAW AT THE
BEGINNING OF THE PANDEMIC WHERE
THERE ARE A LOT MORE.
DESPERATELY ILL PATIENTS
REQUIRING ICU CARE.
SO THE PROPORTION OF THE
NUMBERS OF PATIENTS WHO DO
REQUIRE ADMISSION. WE NEED TO
BE IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT
IS LOWER. AND SAME THING WITH
THE PATIENTS WHO REQUIRE.
VENTILATION OR ARE TO BE ON A
BREATHING MACHINE IS
ALSO LOWER.
>>JENNIFER WAUGH: YOU KNOW IT’S
IMPORTANT BECAUSE I KNOW
SOMETIMES DATA CAN BE A LITTLE
CONFUSING AND WE NEVER WANT
ANYONE WE’VE GOT SOME
STATISTICS THAT WE PULLED UP
PREVIOUSLY WHILE YOU’RE
SPEAKING ON THE ON YOU KNOW ON
THE ON THE CALL IF WE COULD
PULL THIS BACK
UP AGAIN. SO BASICALLY WHAT
IT’S SAYING IS IS BAPTIST
HEALTH BEACHES, 20% BAPTIST
HEALTH SOUTH 21% UP PRETTY MUCH
IN THAT KIND OF
20% RANGE TO THE VIEWER AT HOME
THAT WORRIES ABOUT HEARING AN
INCREASE IN
COVID-19 AND I HEAR WHAT YOU’RE
SAYING WHICH IS THAT THE PEOPLE
WHO ARE IN YOUR ICU RIGHT NOW
ON OUR VERY LIKELY NOT
SUFFERING FROM COVID-19 BUT
CONSIDERING WE’VE SEEN
AN INCREASE. WHAT IS WHAT IS
BAPTIST
BACKUP PLAN IF WE DO SEE A
SPIKE AND THOSE BEDS FILL
QUICKLY. WHAT HAPPENS THEN CAN
PEOPLE SO.
>> YES, SO WE HAVE CONTINGENCY
PLANS
IN PLACE. FRANKLY AT THE
BEGINNING OF
THE PANDEMIC. WE PUT A LOT
PLANS IN PLACE OR SIR.
YOU KNOW INITIALLY WE IT BUT
OBVIOUSLY NOW WE’RE STARTING TO
SEE.
MARKEDLY INCREASED NUMBERS OF
HIM PITCH SO WE ARE PREPARED.
TO
OPEN DIFFERENT UNITS AND AND
CREATE MORE SPACE FOR FOR THOSE
THOSE CRITICALLY ILL PATIENTS.
AS YOU MENTIONED.
PATIENTS IN OUR I SEE IS RIGHT
NOW OR NOT THAT POSITIVE
PATIENTS.
I
I THINK EVERYONE WE’VE BEEN WATCHING THESE TRENDS VERY
CLOSELY.
WE MONITOR OR OWN SITUATIONS IN
OUR HOSPITALS ON A MINUTE BY
MINUTE BASIS. BUT YES, WE DO
WORRY WORRY THAT NUMBERS WE’LL
CONTINUE TO INCREASE.
I’M WORRIED THAT PERHAPS WE’LL
SEE A SPIKE RELATED TO. THE
JULY 4TH HOLIDAY. WE’RE WORRIED
THAT PERHAPS THAT DEMOGRAPHIC OR THE AGE OF PATIENTS AND THE LEVEL
OF OF ILLNESS OF THOSE PATIENTS
MAY START TO TO WORSEN COMING
IN THROUGH THE EMERGENCY AND AS
I SAID RIGHT NOW, IT’S A MUCH
YOUNGER.
POPULATION THAN WHAT WE
SAW INITIALLY. THOSE PATIENTS
HAVE FEWER CHRONIC ILLNESSES
AND IN GENERALLY LESS BOEHNER
ALSO YES, THERE’S THERE’S A LOT
TO A LOT TO WORRY ABOUT.
BUT WE ARE WE
ARE PREPARED.
>>JENNIFER WAUGH: DOCTOR
ELIZABETH RANSON OF THE
EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT CHIEF
PHYSICIAN EXECUTIVE FOR BAPTIST
HEALTH JOINING THIS MORNING.
THIS US THIS MORNING IS IN