{"id":116715,"date":"2022-01-11T16:12:55","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T22:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=116715"},"modified":"2022-01-11T16:13:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T22:13:00","slug":"state-health-officer-issues-covid-19-system-of-care-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/state-health-officer-issues-covid-19-system-of-care-order\/","title":{"rendered":"State Health Officer Issues COVID-19 System Of Care Order"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <strong>Mississippi State Department of Health<\/strong> (MSDH) is issuing a statewide order making participation in <strong>Mississippi COVID System of Care Plan<\/strong> mandatory for all licensed hospitals effective at noon today. The order will continue until January 23, 2022, unless revoked prior to that time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Due to the current wave of <strong>COVID-19<\/strong> and limited ICU availability, and the inability of ill patients in rural areas to access care, MSDH is activating this <strong>Limited System of Care Plan<\/strong>. All Mississippi hospitals must participate in the plan to allow the most critically ill patients to be transferred for care while not overburdening any hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This approach is more focused than the prior Order because it only includes situations such as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Heart attacks<\/li><li>Strokes<\/li><li>Immediate neurosurgical intervention (such as a severe car accident)<\/li><li>Transplant patients with complications<\/li><li>Ventilated patients at a hospital without an ICU, respiratory therapy or a ventilator)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Mississippi MED-COM will direct patients to available beds, and when no beds are available, to hospital destinations on a rotating basis based on geography and resource availability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mississippi State Department of Health (MSDH) is issuing a statewide order making participation in Mississippi COVID System<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":90529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16346,1717],"tags":[16052,20228,20230,5,20229,16144],"class_list":["post-116715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid-19","category-health","tag-covid-19","tag-hospitals","tag-limited-system-of-care-plan","tag-mississippi","tag-mississippi-covid-system-of-care-plan","tag-mississippi-state-department-of-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Mississippi-State-Department-of-Health.jpg?fit=1200%2C750&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}