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Public Hospitals have continued to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Today, we will be discussing how county-owned public hospitals and clinics continue to prepare and respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and what they have learned.
Recorded August 26, 2020.
The City of Cupertino would like to express its thanks to the County of Santa Clara for the use of their video materials during the COVID-19 pandemic.
For more information regarding the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak in Cupertino, please visit https://www.cupertino.org/coronavirus.
A
Good
morning
and
welcome
to
facebook
live
with
the
county
of
santa
clara,
my
name
is
corina
herrera,
as
you
can
see,
we'll
be
taking
off
our
masks
just
during
the
segment.
So
you
can
understand
what
we're
saying
and
we
can
have
our
translators
see
our
our
mouth
as
we're
speaking
today.
Public
hospitals
have
been
continued
to
continue
to
respond
with
cover
19
pandemic.
A
We
will
be
discussing
how
county
owned
public
hospitals
and
clinics
continue
to
prepare
and
respond
to
the
covet
19
pandemic,
and
what
they
have
learned.
Jill
sprout
to
sprout
today
is
a
chief
nursing
officer
at
the
santa
clara
county
valley,
medical
center,
and
she
will
be
joining
us
this
morning
to
discuss
hospital
operations.
A
B
We
have
also
made
some
structural
changes
at
our
public
hospitals
and
now
we're
providing
video
and
televisions,
which
is
something
that
we
had
to
implement
rather
quickly,
so
patients
can
safely
see
their
providers
and
not
necessarily
have
to
come
to
the
hospital
if,
if
not
needed,
we
are
back
online
with
all
of
our
operating
rooms,
our
elective
cases,
our
procedures.
B
Our
operating
rooms
continue
to
be
open
all
week.
Long
for
emergencies
and
for
elective
cases-
and
I
think
one
important
thing
that
we're
really
doing
is
every
single
day.
We
are
assessing
the
situation,
monitoring
all
the
dashboards
and
looking
at
the
trends
up
or
down,
and
also
our
hospital
capacity,
our
ventilators
our
critical
care
beds,
and
we
continue
to
watch
this
very
closely.
A
And
I
think
you've
answered
a
couple
of
things
because
I'm
sure
a
lot
has
shifted
from
six
months
ago,
but
are
there
any
other
things
that
have
shifted
in
the
hospitals
from
six
months
ago?
How
things
were
being
done
to
how
they're
being
done
now.
B
Yes,
we
have
one
of
the
first
things:
we've
done
at
all.
Three
hospitals
is
we've
put
up
triage
tents,
so
when
patients
come
in
our
it
used
to
be,
they
would
come
in
our
our
emergency
department
waiting
room,
but
now
we
can
quickly
assess
patients
for
any
what
we
call
ili
symptoms,
influenza-like
symptoms
and
keep
people
segregated.
B
So
we
can
provide
so
there's
not
any
mixing
of
patients,
and
so
we
have
four
tenths
at
bmc.
St
louise
also
has
a
tent
and
so
does
o'connor.
So
this
has
helped
us
be
able
to
quickly
triage
patients.
We
also
mandate
mandate,
all
visitor
and
employee
screening
of
temperatures
and
universal
masking.
So
we
encourage
people,
patients
and
visitors
to
wear
a
surgical
mask
and
if
they
come
without
one,
we
provide
them.
So
everyone
in
the
hospital
is
wearing
a
mask
and
we've
also
changed
our
visitor
policy.
B
So
we
really
need
to
limit
the
amount
of
visitors,
and
I
know
this
has
been
very
hard
on
families.
So
we
are
really
decreasing
the
amount
of
visitors
but
under
special
circumstances,
end-of-life
pediatric
patients,
labor
and
delivery.
There
are
special
circumstances.
We
are
allowing
visitors,
but
again
this
has
been
hard
on
our
families,
and
we
know
that
so
we
are
trying
to
encourage
ipads
face
time
and
if
a
patient
or
family
doesn't
feel
a
patient
doesn't
have
a
way
to
communicate.
We
provide
the
ipad,
because
you
know
combating
isolation
is
really
important
for
our
families.
B
A
Thank
you
so
much
for
that.
It's
very
important
to
be
able
to
connect
our
families
right
during
that
such
hard
times.
Yes,
what
have
you
learned
and
or
your
staff
learned
in
treating
patients
with
covet
19
anything
special
that
you've
done
since
you
know
the
beginning
to
how
you're
doing
things
now.
B
Yes,
we
have
learned
a
lot
early
on.
We
were
very
quick
to
put
patients
on
ventilators,
but
we're
using
other
modalities
high
flow
oxygen,
and
so
that's
really
helped
and
we're
seeing
a
less
of
a
need
for
our
critical
care
beds.
Now,
because
we
are
using
the
use
of
steroids
and
other
medications,
and
so
early
on,
we
had
our
big
surge.
B
We
had
a
lot
more
critical,
critically
ill
patients
than
we're
seeing
right
now,
so
that
is
helping
us
with
our
our
icu
capacity
and
our
ability
to
take
other
medical
emergencies
that
are
non-coveted.
B
We
are
also
again
using
video,
chats
and
use
of
technology,
and
we
have
are
doing
a
really
good
job
of
social
distancing
and
keeping
our
staff
and
patients
safe
when
they
come
to
the
hospital.
A
Thank
you.
We
appreciate
you.
We
appreciate
all
the
staff
that
are
working
hard
in
our
hospitals
at
this
time
and
throughout
these
hard
times
you
know,
and
you
are
not
just
doing
the
work
but
you're
also
learning
as
you're
going
and
implementing
new
things.
So
we
really
appreciate
that
and
in
general,
does
a
hospital
accept
transference
from
other
locations
other
counties?
Can
you
explain
a
little
bit
about
that.
B
Yes,
we
because,
fortunately,
we
do
have
capacity
at
all
of
our
hospitals,
so
we
continue
to
accept.
Our
trauma.
Program
remains
open
for
pediatric
and
adult
our
burn.
Center
remains
open,
and
so
we
do
get
out
of
county
transfers
for
those
two
programs,
but
we
also,
if
any
other
part
of
the
state,
is
overwhelmed
and
does
not
have
enough
icu
beds.
We
do
have
capacity
and
we
would
help
out
our
surrounding
counties
or
you
know
other
parts
of
the
the
the
state
if
other
hospitals
were
to
be
overwhelmed
by
critically
ill
patients.
B
We
also
work
with
the
eoc
to
you
know,
be
able
to
facilitate
transfers.
We
are
here
for
the
community
and
we
are
in
this
together
and
it's
it's
been
so
inspiring
to
see
the
health
care
workers
coming
in
day
after
day
and
as
we
have
gone
we're
six
months
into
this
or
like
eight,
I
guess
six
or
I
don't
know
what
month
it
is,
but
we
because
we've
learned
so
much.
B
I
see
the
staff's
confidence
and
level
of
really
knowing
how
to
care
for
these
patients,
and
when
I
round
in
the
hospital
and
the
people,
the
nurses
and
the
providers
taking
care
of
the
covered
patients
are
very
confident
and
they
they
tell
me
you
know
joe.
We
got
this,
we
have
this
and
we
are
here
for
the
community,
and
so
it's
it's
very
inspiring
to
see
how
we've
come
together
as
a
county
and
we've
come
together
as
three
hospitals
and
we've
also
come
together
for
the
community
to
care
for
these
patients.
A
Thank
you.
Definitely,
these
hard
times
have
really
highlighted
the
heroes
of
our
current
times
right.
Our
nurses,
our
doctors,
our
firemen
and
our
fire
women
out
there
working
hard
during
these
hard
times.
Thank
you
so
much
and
now
can
you
tell
us
a
little
bit
why,
following
the
public
health
guidance
is
so
important,
also
in
your
department.
B
Yes,
it's
up
to
all
of
us
to
really
make
sure
we
decrease
the
spread
of
the
virus
and
we
do
everything
to
mitigate
it,
which
is
social,
distancing
wearing
face
coverings
or
out
in
public
good
hand,
hygiene,
wiping
down
high
touch
surfaces
and
not
participating
in
any
large
gatherings,
and
really
it's
up
to
all
of
us
to
decrease
the
spread
and
by
decreasing
the
spread.
We
are
decreasing
our
hospitalizations,
our
patients
that
potentially
could
fall
ill
critically
ill
or
even
pass
away.
B
So
we
we
want
to
encourage
everyone
to
follow
the
health
orders
and
follow
all
of
the
guidance
to
decrease
the
spread.
A
As
you
can
see,
we
have
a
six
at
least
a
six
feet:
distance
from
us
today,
I'm
ensuring
we
continue
to
wear
our
masks
and
remember
you
can
continue
to
tune
in
every
monday,
wednesday
and
friday
here
at
ten
o'clock,
we'll
continue
to
have
people
like
jill
and
others
from
our
community
to
talk
about
resources
and
what
we're
doing
in
our
community
to
respond
to
kova,
19
and
other
issues
that
come
up
as
they
come
up
and
so
remember
to
continue
to
stay
safe.
Keep
your
families
healthy,
your
health.