THOMASVILLE — Archbold officials reported Tuesday there have been 327 new COVID-19 positive test results over the last week, Over the past week, the system has had 1,028 new negative results. Fifty-two people were admitted to Archbold hospitals in the last week for COVID-19. 

The system record 10 deaths from COVID-19 in the last week.

As of Tuesday, there were 42 COVID-19 positive patients at Archbold Memorial Hospital. There were 12 COVID-19 positive patients at Grady General Hospital, one at Brooks County Hospital and seven at Mitchell County Hospital. There is one COVID-19 positive patients at Northside Center for Behavioral and Psychiatric Care.

Archbold also is reporting there are no COVID-19 positive patients at Glenn-Mor Nursing Home, Mitchell Convalescent Center or at Pelham Parkway Nursing Home.

The system also has administered 28,912 COVID-19 vaccine doses as of Tuesday. Also as of Tuesday, 58 of the 82 positive COVID-19 admissions have not been vaccinated. Also, all 18 of the patients in ICU were unvaccinated. Of the 13 people on ventilators, none had received the vaccine.

“Over the past several weeks, we have had to make some tough decisions to allow us to support our patients and our frontline staff such as limiting visitation, limiting inpatient surgeries and many of the systems clinical leaders are already working in staffing to help support the front line staff,” said Archbold President and CEO Darcy Craven. “We expect that the cases will continue to rise over the next two to three weeks as the Delta variant continues to run through our community. For this reason, we must now make the decision to curtail additional services and deploy licensed colleagues back into direct care roles to provide immediate frontline support and mitigate burnout. We will re-evaluate our status and service offerings on a weekly basis and resume normal activities as soon as we are able. 

“We are also now operating a modified emergency operations center to help solve urgent needs as they arise during this crisis. We cannot thank our staff enough for their hard work and our community for supporting us during this difficult time. Together, we will overcome this.”

As of Tuesday, August 17, patients at the maternity center will be allowed one (1) support person. This will be the only visitor allowed during a patient’s stay. The support person must be COVID-19 negative.