Allegheny Health Network Says It Is Not Accepting Patients From Florida And Other Southern States

By Andy Sheehan, CBS Pittsburgh

August 14, 2021

Some intensive care units in Florida have been stretched to capacity as tired and overworked nurses and doctors tend to patients stricken with the Delta variant.

In the past two weeks, those hospitals have reached out to neighboring states to take in patients who they don’t have the capacity to treat. But those hospitals have been told there’s no room. Now that those pleas have reached our region, Allegheny Health Network Chief Medical Officer Imran Qadeer said, sadly, the answer is the same.

“We are, unfortunately, unable to take those patients from Florida and other states,” he said.

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