Across the Methodist Le Bonheur hospital system early Friday, Aug. 13, three ICU beds were available, a nerve-wracking statistic in a city where most emergency rooms are holding patients because beds are full.
The number of children sick with COVID at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital has more than doubled in a week. As of early Tuesday, Aug. 10, 17 children were hospitalized, including six in critical care. One was in the emergency room, waiting for a bed to open.
All but about 5% of the available rental housing in the Memphis medical district is occupied, according to figures kept by the Memphis Medical District Collaborative. The leaders of the MMDC say the high occupancy rate can be an incentive for landlords to raise rents but not necessarily to invest in those properties.
Memphis-area private schools are making decisions about how the 2021-22 school year will look amid rising cases of the Delta variant of COVID-19 and pediatric hospitals feeling its effects across the nation. Local private schools are implementing protocols at varying levels, some requiring universal masking and others leaving more choices in the hands of parents… Read More
The seven-day average for new COVID cases is now 478, up from 294 a week ago, as Delta rips through the community. Health officials sounded a persistent, sustained alarm Thursday, Aug. 5, that those who are eligible for vaccination need to do their part to blunt the rise, happening now as schools are preparing to… Read More
Serious cases of COVID-19 have doubled at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital in 10 days, a worrisome barometer as pediatric cases tick up across the region.“It’s both increased and sustained,” said Dr. Nick Hysmith, medical director of infection prevention at Le Bonheur and associate professor at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.
At the rate COVID-19 is growing in Shelby County, current ICU capacity will be depleted by mid-August. Sunday, Aug. 1, hospitals across the region were holding patients in emergency rooms because all beds were full. At Methodist University, nearly 25% of patients in the emergency room were COVID-positive, a level the doctors on duty suspect… Read More
Buildings designed by two of Memphis’ most revered, modern architects — A. L. Aydelott and Roy Harrover — are to be razed soon after standing for more than a half-century.The Memphis Fire Department will vacate its 54-year-old building that houses department headquarters and Fire Station No. 5 at 65 Front St. at Union Avenue. The… Read More
