When Lt. Nathan Brashear saw the call for National Guard service members to help as hospitals were reaching a crisis point during Kentucky's delta surge, he didn't hesitate to volunteer.
The service members are not doing clinical work, but instead offering administrative and logistical support so hospital staff can focus on patient care. That could be anything from taking patients to appointments to cleaning beds to serving and clearing food.Kentucky National Guard members were deployed to The Medical Center at Bowling Green in Bowling Green, Ky.
The size of National Guard teams and length of their deployment varies by hospital size and demand, and will stay as long as they can in whatever capacity is needed, Martin said. Over two-thirds of Kentucky hospitals have critical staffing shortages as they're overrun with COVID-19 patients, and doctors are"quickly approaching" the point where they would need to ration care, Gov.
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