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EXPLAINER: What are ‘Crisis Standards of Care?’

AP News

Sep 17, 2021

RN holds hand of COVID patient at St. Luke's Boise Medical Center

Center Director, Dr. Matthew Wynia, said state authorities should be responsible for establishing strategies needed to make triage decision fairly, so doctors and nurses aren’t left making those calls on their own at a patient’s bedside. “There’s no way to look at this and say this is OK. It’s not OK,” he said. But it’s necessary if hospitals are running out of resources, “which is happening right now.’’ Read article>>