Nevada Hospital Treats COVID-19 Patients In Parking Garage As Cases Continue To Spike
As hospitalizations soar in Nevada, the state has resorted to treating coronavirus patients in a hospital parking garage!
Renown Regional Medical Center in Reno already converted two floors of its parking garage into an alternative care site in early November to handle an overflow of COVID-19 patients if necessary. The Silver State reported a 14-day positivity rate of 21.2 percent on Monday — the highest since the pandemic began. “Our frontline caregivers are seeing things that they never would have imagined,” Tony Slonim, the president and CEO of Renown Health, told CBS News.
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Slonim, whose father died from COVID-19 the same day the parking garage site opened said the fight against the virus is personal. “This condition took my father’s life,” he told CBS. “We couldn’t be there for him, but I know as a former ICU doctor that they were there comforting him.”
Overall, the pandemic has claimed more than 2,300 lives in Nevada since March, state data shows.
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