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Missoula, Montana’s St. Patrick Hospital full, staffing short amid COVID-19 delta surge – Billings hospitals struggling with capacity as COVID cases climb

August 18, 2021/

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St. Patrick Hospital in Missoula is turning down patients from smaller hospitals that they would normally need to care for.

Chief physician executive Dr. James McKay tells NBC Montana staffing is down due to burnout from COVID, quarantine due to exposure and not enough traveling doctors and nurses due to the delta surge.

 

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