SEPTEMBER 10, 2021, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE A9
been holding “upwards” of 30 patients
in the emergency room because no hos-
pital beds are available.
Salem Health’s update Tuesday
showed 109 COVID patients in the hos-
pital, 87 of them unvaccinated.
“In our community, the silence about
being vaccinated is deafening. I don’t
know how else to describe it,” Wolfe
said.
Salem Health is also seeing an
increase in children who have to be
hospitalized. Wolfe said the hospital
sent two children to specialty hospitals
“because they are so sick and beyond
the capability of what we are able to take
care of.”
The update came just two days
after the Oregon Health Authority
announced that 160 Oregon National
Guard members would be deployed to
Salem Health last Friday to help with
“capacity challenges.”
The hospital has also added 150
nurses over the past month and, accord-
ing to Wolfe, the community hasn’t
reached their peak in COVID cases yet.
News tip? Contact reporter Joey
Cappelletti at editor@keizertimes.
com or 616-610-3093.
A nurse cares for a COVID patient in the intensive care unit at Salem Hospital on Friday, Aug. 20.
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