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<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 4992991" data-attributes="member: 48469">[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.wkrn.com/news/200-national-guard-soldiers-providing-support-at-20-tennessee-hospitals-due-to-covid-surge/[/URL]“The rapid increase in COVID-19 cases is <a href="https://www.wkrn.com/tennessee-covid-current-hospitalizations-chart/?ipid=covid-charts" target="_blank">straining hospital beds and staff</a>, forcing the need for emergency staffing assistance. <a href="https://www.wkrn.com/tag/governor-bill-lee/?ipid=inline-link" target="_blank">Governor Bill Lee</a> signed an Executive Order allowing for hospital staffing flexibility and deployed the National Guard to assist where they’re needed. The guardsmen are supporting medical centers across the state to help alleviate some of the stress caused by COVID.“We’re currently in 20 hospitals across the state, and we have roughly 200 service members within those hospitals augmenting the staff,” said Joint Task Force Medical Commander Lt. Col. Justin Olander.”From Memphis to Chattanooga, Morristown to Nashville, the guardsmen are backfilling jobs in hospitals as they deal with massive surges of sick COVID patients.“We have medics, we have some nurses as well that are working, but they’re primarily medics we also have admin support and the admin support can do a wide range of patients care-type things under the supervision of a nurse,” said Olander. The staffing struggles are expected to continue as the <a href="https://www.wkrn.com/tennessee-covid-current-hospitalizations-chart/?ipid=covid-charts" target="_blank">state is breaking daily hospitalization records</a>.”</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 4992991, member: 48469"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.wkrn.com/news/200-national-guard-soldiers-providing-support-at-20-tennessee-hospitals-due-to-covid-surge/[/URL] “The rapid increase in COVID-19 cases is [URL='https://www.wkrn.com/tennessee-covid-current-hospitalizations-chart/?ipid=covid-charts']straining hospital beds and staff[/URL], forcing the need for emergency staffing assistance. [URL='https://www.wkrn.com/tag/governor-bill-lee/?ipid=inline-link']Governor Bill Lee[/URL] signed an Executive Order allowing for hospital staffing flexibility and deployed the National Guard to assist where they’re needed. The guardsmen are supporting medical centers across the state to help alleviate some of the stress caused by COVID. “We’re currently in 20 hospitals across the state, and we have roughly 200 service members within those hospitals augmenting the staff,” said Joint Task Force Medical Commander Lt. Col. Justin Olander.” From Memphis to Chattanooga, Morristown to Nashville, the guardsmen are backfilling jobs in hospitals as they deal with massive surges of sick COVID patients. “We have medics, we have some nurses as well that are working, but they’re primarily medics we also have admin support and the admin support can do a wide range of patients care-type things under the supervision of a nurse,” said Olander. The staffing struggles are expected to continue as the [URL='https://www.wkrn.com/tennessee-covid-current-hospitalizations-chart/?ipid=covid-charts']state is breaking daily hospitalization records[/URL].” [/QUOTE]

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