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Hospitalizations at West Florida – up a third

   July 17, 2020

West Florida Hospital – and Santa Rosa Medical – have added 16 COVID-19 patients this week – from 48 to 64.  From July 1-8, the hospital conducted an average of 87 inpatient COVID tests.

Ascension Sacred Heart continues to have the most COVID-19 patients – 85.  From July 1-8, the hospital conducted an average of 103 inpatient tests and 342 mobile specimen collections.

Baptist Hospital – whose total includes Gulf Breeze Hospital – only added one new case. The locally-owned health care system appears to be the outlier in the COVID pandemic, with the other two systems handling  74% of the cases.

Baptist has done the least amount of COVID testing in-house – averaging only 43 inpatient tests per day. Its mobile testing unit only averaged 95 specimen collections over the first eight days of July.

West Florida has suspended elective surgeries as of Thursday, July 16.

COVID-19 Patients Monday Friday
13-Jul 17-Jul Increase
Ascension Sacred Heart 80 85 5
Baptist 52 53 1
West Florida 48 64 16
Total 180 202

Testing

Inpatient Ascension Baptist WFH
1-Jul 80 46 96
2-Jul 100 41 78
3-Jul 120 43 79
4-Jul 54 34 61
5-Jul 63 34 70
6-Jul 185 51 121
7-Jul 115 51 98
8-Jul 107 50 98
Total 824 350 701
Avg 103 44 88
Mobile Sites Ascension Baptist
1-Jul 438 135
2-Jul 492 138
3-Jul 51 48
4-Jul 0 5
5-Jul 0 1
6-Jul 647 157
7-Jul 618 135
8-Jul 491 139
Total 2737 758
Avg 342 95
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