{"id":747329,"date":"2021-09-13T10:21:25","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T14:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=747329"},"modified":"2021-09-13T10:21:30","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T14:21:30","slug":"doctor-suggests-hospital-change-covid-case-count-a-little-bit-more-scary-for-the-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doctor-suggests-hospital-change-covid-case-count-a-little-bit-more-scary-for-the-public\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Suggests Hospital Change COVID Case Count: \u2018A Little Bit More Scary For The Public\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdoctor-suggests-hospital-change-covid-case-count-a-little-bit-more-scary-for-the-public%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=747329&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-200511255-001.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A North Carolina doctor who had formerly served as the Chief of Medical Staff for a regional medical center argued at a virtual meeting that the hospital\u2019s messaging needs to be \u201ca little bit more scary for the public,\u201d suggesting that the hospital include \u201cpost-Covid\u201d patients in the hospital\u2019s case count.<\/p>\n<p>The internal discussion on how the hospital reports its COVID-19 patient count featured Dr. Mary Rudyk, who previously served as Chief of Medical Staff for Novant Health New Hanover Regional Medical Center, Shelbourn Stevens, the president of NHRMC, and the hospital\u2019s Director of Marketing, Carolyn Fisher.<\/p>\n<p>In the video, Fisher explained, \u201cThe dashboard and how it\u2019s set up myself as far as how we get information out to the community on meaningful numbers, we\u2019ve only set on a weekly basis. So that\u2019s on our website and we\u2019ve been sharing&nbsp;that through social channels as well, particularly those graphics that show the number of patients in-house, the percentage of them that are unvaccinated, percentage of unvaccinated people in the ICU and the percentage of deaths and the numbers. So those are numbers that we put out as far as we don\u2019t get into details of \u2014 of those other numbers are certainly out there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rudyk stated, \u201cI guess my feeling at this point in time is maybe we need to be completely&nbsp;a little bit more scary for the public. Then there\u2019s another comment that I completely agree there are many people still hospitalized that we\u2019re considering post-Covid but we\u2019re not counting in those numbers. So how do we include those post-Covid people in the numbers of the patients we have in the hospital?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fisher: \u201cSo is that all the people who have been in the hospital since the beginning of Covid?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, or but&nbsp;are still in,\u201d Rudyk replied. \u201cAnd that\u2019s something that I can take to someone else. But I think those are important numbers. The patients that are still in the hospital that are off the Covid floor but still are occupying the hospital for a variety of reasons.&nbsp;\u201c<\/p>\n<p>Stevens interjected, \u201cCaroline, I\u2019m sorry, we\u2019re calling those recovered now. If you look at the Novant Health Dashboard, they\u2019re listed as recovered, but I do think, from our standpoint we would still consider them a Covid patient because they\u2019re still here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that that needs to be highlighted as well. Because once they\u2019re off isolation, they drop from the Covid numbers; that\u2019s exactly right,\u201d Rudyk said.<\/p>\n<p>Stevens suggested, \u201cCaroline, we can talk offline how we run that up to marketing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rudyk continued, \u201cSo I was going to say, Caroline, I think we have to be more blunt; we have to be more forceful\u2026we have to say something coming out, you know you don\u2019t get vaccinated; you know you\u2019re going to die. Let\u2019s just be really blunt to these people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NHRMC Novant Health New Hanover Regional Medical Center released a statement after the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NationalFile\/status\/1436466927703138308\">video of the conversation<\/a> was made public, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wect.com\/2021\/09\/10\/novant-health-issues-statement-leaked-internal-discussion-covid-19-patient-numbers\/\">WECT.<\/a> They stated:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"10\">\n<p><em>The team members involved in this excerpt of an internal meeting are seeing the highest level of COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths so far in this pandemic \u2013 despite having safe and effective vaccines widely available. This was a frank discussion among medical and communications professionals on how we can more accurately convey the severity and seriousness of what\u2019s happening inside of our hospitals and throughout our communities. Specifically, the data we have been sharing does not include patients who remain hospitalized for COVID-19 complications even though they are no longer COVID-19 positive, so it does not provide a complete picture of the total impact of COVID-19 on our patients and on our hospitals. We continue to be concerned with the amount of misinformation in our communities and consistently strive for more ways to be transparent and tell the whole story. The continued rise of hospitalizations makes it evident that we have more work to do to reach our communities with these messages.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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