OSF HealthCare is working with EMS partners, running drills to be ready if the need arises for additional capacity for patients outside traditional settings. It is just one of the precautionary measures taken by OSF HealthCare Sacred Heart Medical Center in Danville and OSF HealthCare Heart of Mary Medical Center in Urbana, according to Curt Squires. He is the new Community Relations Coordinator for OSF HealthCare in this area.
The drills are not something that people are going to see on the street. Instead, it is part of the planning that OSF HealthCare is doing across their system because of the on-going coronavirus pandemic.
Squires says some steps announced earlier by OSF remain in effect for the hospitals in Danville and Urbana. They include strict visitor guidelines and hospital access. At both hospitals visitation is limited to one visitor per patient for only critically or gravely ill patients, and those in labor and delivery.
Squires says the OSF hospitals in Danville and Urbana are continuing to use tents which are set up outside to screen patients and employees prior to entering the hospitals. The steps were taken out of an abundance of caution, he says, at both locations.
