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Ready: One of the ICU medi-hoods for COVID patients at Latrobe Regional Hospital.
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PREPARED LATROBE Regional Hospital has officially become a COVID streaming service for Gippsland and has installed specialised triage protocols of patients presenting with any symptoms. It means LRH will manage and treat COVID patients from the region instead of sending them to Melbourne, it will also take patients from Melbourne if the need arose. LRH is now the third Victorian regional hospital
to become a COVID streaming service, ahead of Barwon and Bendigo. It will start streaming with nine inpatient beds and two ICU beds with the capacity to scale up to 64 inpatient beds and 30 ICU beds. There is a ventilator for each ICU bed. LRH chief executive officer Don McRae assured the hospital would have “plenty of capacity” to meet peak demand in Gippsland. Mr McRae said modelling had shown that the
region would need between 50 or 60 inpatient beds and 15 ICU beds at peak. “Our staff meet daily with the team across Victoria to work out demand, and if there is too much demand in Melbourne, we will be required to take patients from Melbourne,” Mr McRae said. Continued on page 2
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