MultiCare Deaconess Hospital ICU

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Sat., Sept. 18, 2021

Hospital staff adjust a COVID-19 patient’s ventilator tube before they rolled the patient from their back to the prone position on earlier this year at MultiCare Deaconess Hospital’s ICU. While hospitalizations in Washington have hit a plateau, that plateus is at a lofty altitude - roughly 1,000 patients a day.

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Dr. Ben Arthurs listens to reports from resident physicians Friday as he makes his rounds in the ICU at MultiCare Deaconess Hospital in Spokane.

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Dr. Ben Arthurs dons PPE as he listens to a patient report from a resident physician in the ICU on Friday, Sep 17, 2021, at MultiCare Deaconess Hospital in Spokane, Wash.

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Dr. Ben Arthurs enters a patient's negative pressure hospital room to check on their status on Friday, Sep 17, 2021, at MultiCare Deaconess Hospital in Spokane, Wash.

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Bailee Walters draws blood from a COVID-19 patient Friday at MultiCare Deaconess Hospital.

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Dr. Ben Arthurs stands outside a patientÕs air-sealed room as he listens to a report from a resident physician before entering the room to check on the patientÕs status on Friday, Sep 17, 2021, at MultiCare Deaconess Hospital in Spokane, Wash.

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Nurse manager Bailee Walters dons PPE before entering a negative pressure hospital room to check on a COVID-19 patient in September 2021, at MultiCare Deaconess Hospital in Spokane. A bill that would have established nurse-to-patient ratios has likely died in the Washington Legislature, but lawmakers say ideas in the bill will be discussed in the future.

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A nurse enters patient information in a computer as she monitors their condition within a negative pressure hospital room in the ICU on Friday, Sep 17, 2021, at MultiCare Deaconess Hospital in Spokane, Wash.

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A negative pressure hospital room is bed-less after its occupant died from Covid 19 and the bed was removed for sterilization on Friday, Sep 17, 2021, at MultiCare Deaconess Hospital in Spokane, Wash.

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