July 23, 2020 – Citizens Medical Center (Victoria, TX) has converted 78 rooms to negative pressure rooms and received 16 healthcare workers from the state to deal with the surge of COVID-19 patients.
“When we first started the transition to negative pressure rooms, we built a 38-bed unit,” Dr. Daniel Cano, the hospital’s chief medical officer, told the Victoria Advocate. “I thought there’s no way we’re going to fill a 38-bed unit. It did not take long. It was really over the course of about a week that we filled that unit and had a need to exceed that unit…”