Throughout a Thursday news conference, Kern Medical CEO Russell Judd stated all regional healthcare facilities have reached the point of optimum capability and were beginning to execute surge plans.
” What we believed was going to be in March or April is upon us in July and August,” Judd stated in referral to early forecasts that healthcare facilities would exceed capability last spring.
In anticipation of even more homeowners requiring medical care, the county prepares to use federal CARES Act cash to bring in intensive care system nurses from throughout the nation to allow local medical facilities to staff ICUs above their certified capability.