The Covid-19 Omicron surge is fading, but there’s still a staffing crisis at many U.S. hospitals. A shortage of nurses and other staff means fewer beds for patients.
Nurse Morgan Veglia cares for a patient with Covid-19 in the ICU at Allegheny General Hospital.PITTSBURGH—Louise Dobbins thought her job would feel less like being an air-traffic controller by now. But finding beds for patients in an overcrowded healthcare system is as hard as ever, she says.
One recent morning, Ms. Dobbins was trying to find beds for 12 patients to transfer into Allegheny General Hospital, one of the biggest hospitals in Pittsburgh that takes many of the region’s sickest patients. But the hospital was already running at 110% capacity.
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