Nurses at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center and UCSF Medical Center at Parnassus say patients are doubled up in rooms or lie in gurneys in hallways.
Nurses at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center and UCSF Medical Center at Parnassus went public this week with complaints about overcrowding and staffing issues that they say have led to eroding conditions for patients.
Sposito also said patients with serious conditions have waited several hours to receive care. Those include people enduring chest pains, transplant patients with complications, people experiencing excruciating pain not being able to get morphine and people needing mental health treatment not being seen right away.
She said that though hospitals are not facing COVID-19 surges like before, the conditions have made it difficult to isolate patients who have tested positive for the virus away from the hallways and waiting areas. Sposito said sometimes they are unable to isolate COVID-19 patients at all due to a lack of available rooms.
A spokesperson for UCLA Health said in an email statement that hospital officials “value the commitment and input of nurses” and are working to address topics raised by them. The statement said the organization has submitted a request to the California Department of Public Health asking to continue having more than one patient in some of the rooms if needed to provide care.
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