Health

Over the past few weeks, we have seen the number of Bulloch County resident’s testing positive for COVID-19 and EGRMC hospital admissions grow exponentially.

Bulloch County: Region J Critical Care Bed Capacity increased to 30 today out of 264 total . There are only 12% (234 beds) critical care beds available statewide.

Bulloch County: 8th Bulloch County death reported today. He was a 52 year old African American male with comorbidity. Region J Critical Care Bed Capacity increased to 23 today out of 264 total .

Bulloch County: Region J Critical Care Bed Capacity decreased to 16 today . There are only 16% (468 beds) critical care beds available statewide. 803 Total confirmed cases and 7 deaths total reported here with 65 hospitalizations total.

Bulloch County Schools have set the decision date for Friday, July 24th to decide whether children will return to in-person classes or select the Virtual Learning school option.

Today in Bulloch County: Region J Critical Care Bed Capacity increased to 19 today . There are only 16% (464 beds) critical care beds available statewide. 791 Total confirmed cases and 7 deaths total reported here with 65 hospitalizations total.

EGRMC would like to congratulate Labor & Delivery nurse Nicola Stansel for winning the hospital’s first ever Staff Recognition Award. This award is given to a team member that has outstanding patient experience scores for the month.

The Georgia Emergency Management Agency (GEMA) daily status report is now reporting only 10 total critical care beds are available in our Regional Coordinating Hospital District, which includes Savannah and Brunswick hospitals.

Leadership Southeast Georgia (LSEGA) is seeking nominations for civic, nonprofit and business leaders across the 10-county Southeast Georgia region to join the 2021 class of its leadership program.

Georgia reaches “widespread community transmission” of COVID-19. Community spread, or community transmission, happens when people contract the virus but do not know how or when they got it.