SMH COVID Update

Coconut Telegraph

As hospitalizations continue to rise on the Suncoast, Sarasota Memorial Hospital is taking steps to bolster its staff, create more isolation units and ICU space for COVID-19 patients and reduce non-emergency elective surgeries to free up beds in other areas of the hospital for non-COVID patients who need care.

Below is a YouTube link with a video interview of James Fiorica, MD, Chief Medical Officer at Sarasota Memorial Hospital, and Kirk Voelker, MD, a critical care specialist and director of Clinical Research at SMH, with the latest updates for our community.

Click here to watch the video interview.

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