Piedmont Henry: COVID-19 surge in community taxing hospital

STOCKBRIDGE – With close to 90,000 patients visiting the emergency department each year, Piedmont Henry Hospital is accustomed to treating a high-volume of patients. However, the fourth surge of the COVID-19 pandemic is stretching the resources of the hospital and forcing them to make changes to accommodate an influx of patients.

This means that some departments will change their rooms to semi-private rooms, so that patients with similar diagnoses can be cohorted, and an area on the first floor of the north tower will be converted to treat emergency department patients with a lower acuity.