The non-profit Care New England health network opened the Kent Field Hospital on November 30, just before Rhode Island’s infection rate became the highest in the world, reports AP.
Kent Hospital was using all its beds for its sickest Covid-19 patients, and needed somewhere for the overflow. Now, other hospitals also occasionally send patients to the field hospital.
Only stable, non-intubated Covid-19 patients are transferred a few miles to the field hospital, and only if they consent. Some refuse. The idea of a field hospital can conjure up images of giant tents in a war zone, canvas sides flapping in the wind.
