On the day of his out-patient procedure to remove a kidney stone, Chad Gerlaugh drove himself to Morton Plant Hospital in a ...
Hospital bed capacity has remained elevated — consistently sitting above 70% — since 2023, HHS data shows. Nearly 76% of staffed inpatient beds at U.S. hospitals were occupied for the week ending Jan.
The April 2019 hospital procedure should have been routine. But while in recovery, Gerlaugh’s blood pressure dropped dramatically, the result of an infection that developed into sepsis ...