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Earlier this week, Kaweah Delta Healthcare District reported a record high of 68 COVID-19 patients in its hospital beds. Soon, however, the Visalia hospital and at least two others in the San Joaquin Valley will be receiving help from the armed services. For the next month, 20 military healthcare workers will be taking care of patients in Kaweah Delta’s intensive care unit. The team, mostly from Travis Air Force Base in Northern California, includes critical care physicians, critical care registered nurses, respiratory therapists and advanced practice providers. They’ve been assigned to the hospital for the next 30 days, with the option to extend another 30 beyond that. “It’s kind of sending in the cavalry, so to speak, with respect to being able to provide us with some much needed additional staffing,” said hospital CEO Gary Herbst in a press release. The release also noted that the hospital is currently running at 91 percent capacity. “We have the ability to move patients around and
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