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Originally Posted by Buckeye Native 001
I didn't realize how unprepared we were in Flagstaff until my gf, who works at the local hospital, informed me that they only have a couple of isolation rooms and maybe 15 ventilators for a town of 70,000. Mind you, FMC is a level one trauma center that also serves a huge rural community. Phoenix is 142 miles away. Vegas and Albuquerque are both over 250 miles away.
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Having a Level 1 trauma center, a couple of isolation rooms and maybe 15 ventilators is actually quite a lot for a town of 70,000.
It would be fairly unusual under normal circumstances in such a place to get someone who needs high level isolation in an ER. Ventilators are more common because they can be needed for trauma victims with chest injuries, stroke and other brain injury patients and so on.
San Francisco, a town of almost a million, has one trauma center also (Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital) although I'm certain several other hospitals have lots of ventillators and probably isolation rooms.