Jeff Bergosh Blog: 82% of Area Ventilators Available as of Yesterday Afternoon

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Thursday, April 9, 2020

82% of Area Ventilators Available as of Yesterday Afternoon

Right now Pensacola area hospitals report that 82% of their total ventilators are available for patient use. This is good news for our area.

For weeks now I have been closely watching the numbers of ventilators locally available at our area's hospitals---via numbers provided by staff and rolled up into a daily SITREP Commissioners receive.

Yesterday we did not receive the SITREP, and there are now new concerns that the daily SITREP may contain information that should not be released to the public.

I have asked if it is a public document, and initially I was told it was so I have linked these reports here on the blog very frequently. Again, these reports contain good data that I believe can serve to reassure the public that the County is working this issue with tremendous diligence.

If it is indeed not public, I believe the portions that are for public consumption must continue to be released. And if it is NOT a public document, I have asked for the specific statutory exemption that makes this daily report unreleasable under Florida statutes.

But the good news to report this morning is that our total number of open and available ventilators for patient use is back up above 80%. (It dropped to 74% just this past Tuesday).

As of late yesterday evening, we have 178 Ventilators available for patient use out of 218 total ventilators in our area's hospitals. 81.6% are available.

Additionally, we have 614 Beds available in these same area hospitals out of a total of 1334 total.

46% are available.