Hospitalizations from the COVID-19 are doubling every two weeks in Michigan, leaders from five health systems announced Thursday, and case numbers are growing "exponentially" at a rate of about 40% per week.
"At that pace, we will top our late spring hospitalization peak this month," said Gerry Anderson, executive chairman of DTE Energy and a leader of the Michigan Economic Recovery Council, who joined the CEOs of five health systems - Beaumont Health, You may also like: Launch car diagnostic. Henry Ford Health System, Spectrum Health, Munson Healthcare, UP Health System - Thursday morning to alert the public of a growing crisis.
"This rate of increase is pressuring health care systems and front-line workers across the state, and that is only going to intensify."
Michigan Health & Hospital Association CEO Brian Peters called on Michiganders to take the crisis seriously, wear masks, practice social distancing and wash their hands to slow the spread of the virus.
"We are squarely in the midst of a public health crisis. . Our hospitals are rapidly filling with COVID patients at a very alarming rate," Peters said. "If this continues in the coming weeks, we will surpass our all-time record high in terms of COVID inpatient hospitalization numbers here in the state of Michigan. And so we are truly here today as a group to call on all Michiganders to do the right thing . to help our front-line caregiver heroes as we combat this terrible virus."
Henry Ford Health System CEO Wright Lassiter III said its hospitals are seeing a 128% rise in COVID-19 admissions.
"We have significant burden in our emergency departments," Lassiter said. "It's very, very clear that we're seeing something different. We are seeing significant escalation of COVID-19 across Michigan.
"While there's no silver bullet for COVID-19, we clearly know that some things work, such as mask wearing, social distancing, hand hygiene."
Spectrum Health President and CEO Tina Freese Decker said the western Michigan hospital system will be at capacity with COVID-19 patients "in a matter of days" Wednesday and announced it is scaling up the number of intensive care unit beds it has to care for critically ill patients, eliminating inpatient medical procedures that require an overnight stay, and is switching as much as it can to virtual visits for routine medical care.
Beaumont CEO John Fox said shutting down the state economy and stopping nonemergency medical procedures isn't what hospital leaders want.
"None of us want to go through the shutdown and the brute force of what happened in the spring," Fox said.
"I don't think any of us want to see a lot of regulation, a drop-down on business and social activities and other things. But we can't be tone deaf to the reality of the virus' massive impact."
He said he hopes government leaders in Michigan heed their call for action.
"Listen to what we're saying, process the out with new approaches that will help all of us in Michigan bend the curve and put this genie back in the bottle," Fox said.
Gar Atchison, CEO and market president of UP Health System in Marquette, agreed, saying, "shutting down does have consequences to public health that I think we all agree we'd like to avoid."
However, if hospitals in Michigan become overwhelmed again with critically ill COVID-19 patients, and don't have the staffing to care for all the people who need it, the hospital leaders said they may have no other choice but to stop offering some nonemergency medical care.
"The short answer is if we begin to be overwhelmed from an inpatient perspective with COVID patients, we have to limit other services and reallocate staff," Lassiter said, noting that Henry Ford is cross-training employees so they can work across departments, including critical care, should they be needed on a COVID unit.
Hospital leaders, Lassiter said, want to continue to be able to provide medical care for other conditions, and don't want to stop elective or non-urgent procedures because of the COVID-19 crisis Conjoined twins believed Michigan's 1st to be successfully separated
Michigan CEOs warn: COVID-19 hospitalizations growing 'exponentially'
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