We have had to move some ventilators around, but we have not run out of ventilators at this point. "24% of our inpatients right now are Covid. Kim Megow, chief medical officer at HCA Midwest, said her health system has 280 COVID-19 patients and 51 are in the ICU. "The issue with the ventilators is we have many ventilators in-house but not all of them are able to handle the high oxygen requirements that our Covid patients require and the high pressures that they require to maintain oxygenation and ventilation," she explained.ĭr. Hays said the issue with ventilators is that not all of them can support a critically ill COVID-19 patient. "I believe we had two ventilators before those extra ventilators came in." Lisa Hays, chief medical officer at AdventHealth, said. I got an emergency call Saturday night from our chief nursing officer that we were down to one ventilator, came in and assess the situation we were able to procure seven more ventilators and those started coming in yesterday as of yesterday," Dr. "Our ventilator situation has been a bit tenuous this week. The University of Kansas Health System and AdventHealth Shawnee Mission are two hospitals seeing ventilator issues. With the surge in COVID-19 cases causing an influx of critically-ill patients, the equipment is once again being stretched thin.ĭuring Wednesday morning's medical call hosted by the University of Kansas Health System, several chief medical officers from around the metro shared updates on patient numbers and brought up the shortage. In what feels like a flashback to mid-2020, Kansas City area hospitals are seeing a shortage in ventilators. A captivating thriller about drug addiction, manipulation, and other sordid Hollywood secrets, as well as the regenerative power of nature and family, The Girl from Hollywood remains as timely today as it was a century ago.KANSAS CITY, Mo. Ashamed of her scandalous past, Shannon finds solace while visiting the Penningtons, but the predatory film director Wilson Crumb soon disrupts their peaceful existence in the hills. In this gritty tale of the Jazz Age, the Penningtons, a close-knit ranching family from the Santa Monica Mountains, and Shannon, a vulnerable young starlet making her way in Hollywood, find themselves ensnared in an underworld of contraband liquor and illicit drugs.