#DHAMKA NEWS!!!‘Our neighbors, our family members’: Small-town hospitals overwhelmed by COVID-19 deaths

Dayna Buri
3 min readNov 15, 2020

USA TODAY 14 MIN AGO

In North Texas, Moore County Hospital District CEO Jeff Turner is managing more than his small rural hospital can handle.

The Dumas hospital has space and staff for 11 coronavirus patients, but only three who are really sick and need intensive care. When they need lifesaving therapies Turner’s hospital can’t provide, his staff tries to find open beds at larger hospitals in Amarillo, about 50 miles to the south.

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When those hospitals are full, his staff scours for space, first in Midland, Wichita Falls and Lubbock, then in Dallas, Denver, Albuquerque, Oklahoma City — even Kansas City, Missouri, more than 500 miles away.

Some patients have died waiting for space at big-city hospitals. Six patients died in six days recently; two died within 24 hours last week.

“In a small town, these are our neighbors, our family members,” Turner said. “That makes it tough.”

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Small hospitals, understaffed and financially vulnerable before the pandemic, are under siege as the virus runs unchecked from North Dakota to the Texas Panhandle. Many of these hospitals are in towns where people are more likely to eschew precautions such as masks and social distancing at churches, grocery stores and other public places.

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Last spring, the coronavirus attacked major metro areas like New York City and Houston. This summer, it spread to suburban communities and ravaged the Sunbelt.

The current wave, which has surpassed 2,000 deaths a day, frightens public health officials because it’stearing into the frayed health care safety net of rural America.

Communities resist wearing masks

The more rural you get, the more disdainful people are, the more doubting and skeptical they are about the whole COVID story,” Schaffner said.

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