'A crisis state': Baystate Health reconsiders rationing care due to staffing, Covid cases

A persistent staffing shortage, combined with the rise of Covid-19 cases and increase of other medical cases, has forced Baystate Health to prepare to ration some care. In a press conference on Thursday, Baystate Health CEO Mark Keroack said the health system was preparing to assemble an independent group that would decide who might get certain kinds of care, in line with ethics polices developed earlier in the pandemic. While they hadn't yet begun rationing, it would begin with the highest intensity…
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