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Latest: Check Hospital Capacity In Colorado Springs Area
Here's an update on how the ongoing coronavirus pandemic has affected hospital capacity in El Paso County and across CO.
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO — COVID-19 hospitalizations continued to decline nationally, but the country still needs time to get back to pre-omicron variant hospital occupancy levels.
Around 128,500 inpatient beds were being used for COVID-19 patients as of Feb. 1, which was a drop of more than 20,000 beds from the prior week, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
State health officials in Colorado reported to the federal government Feb. 1 that approximately 69 percent of inpatient beds and 74 percent of intensive care unit beds in hospitals across the state were occupied. Around 13 percent of inpatient beds and 27 percent of ICU beds statewide were filled by COVID-19 patients, they reported.
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The latest hospitalization numbers from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for El Paso County, included below, are from Jan. 21-27 and represent a rolling seven-day average. Note that the figures for occupied hospital beds sometimes exceed 100 percent; this is because more than one patient sometimes occupies a bed over the course of a week.
Below are the latest figures for hospitals in El Paso County.
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UNIVERSITY COLO HEALTH MEMORIAL HOSPITAL CENTRAL
1400 E BOULDER ST, COLORADO SPRINGS
- All adult inpatient beds: 495
- Inpatient beds occupied: 438.6
- Inpatient beds used by confirmed and suspected COVID-19 patients: 130.1
- Percent of inpatient beds used: 88.61%
- Percent of inpatient beds used by confirmed and suspected COVID-19 patients: 26.28%
- All adult ICU beds: 60.3
- ICU beds occupied: 56.4
- ICU beds used by confirmed and suspected COVID-19 patients: 22.4
- Percent of ICU beds used: 93.53%
- Percent of ICU beds used by confirmed and suspected COVID-19 patients: 37.15%
CENTURA HEALTH-PENROSE-ST FRANCIS HEALTH SERVICES
2222 NORTH NEVADA AVE, COLORADO SPRINGS
- All adult inpatient beds: 474
- Inpatient beds occupied: 362
- Inpatient beds used by confirmed and suspected COVID-19 patients: 135.4
- Percent of inpatient beds used: 76.37%
- Percent of inpatient beds used by confirmed and suspected COVID-19 patients: 28.57%
- All adult ICU beds: 68
- ICU beds occupied: 50.9
- ICU beds used by confirmed and suspected COVID-19 patients: 16.6
- Percent of ICU beds used: 74.85%
- Percent of ICU beds used by confirmed and suspected COVID-19 patients: 24.41%
UCHEALTH GRANDVIEW HOSPITAL
5623 PULPIT PEAK VIEW, COLORADO SPRINGS
- All adult inpatient beds: 22
- Inpatient beds occupied: 10.9
- Inpatient beds used by confirmed and suspected COVID-19 patients: 4
- Percent of inpatient beds used: 49.55%
- Percent of inpatient beds used by confirmed and suspected COVID-19 patients: 18.18%
- All adult ICU beds: 4
- ICU beds occupied: N/A
- ICU beds used by confirmed and suspected COVID-19 patients: 0
- Percent of ICU beds used: N/A
- Percent of ICU beds used by confirmed and suspected COVID-19 patients: 0.00%
Editor’s note: This list was automatically generated using data compiled by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The local hospitals included in the list are limited to those included in the government data, and the numbers reported by these hospitals to HHS have not been independently verified by Patch. Please report any errors or other feedback to us.
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