Arizona releases new data on availability of hospital beds, ventilators

PHOENIX — The Arizona Department of Health Services released new data on Sunday as it pertains to the availability of hospital beds and ventilators in the state.

The website that discloses the new information shows the state’s number of available hospital beds and ventilators compared to how many patients are currently using them, as well as other COVID-19 specific data.

As of Sunday, over 4,400 people were recorded as inpatients, while over 1,000 patients required Intensive Care Unit beds and over 360 Arizonans have been put on ventilators.

Those metrics leave the state with an availability of over 900 ICU beds and over 1,100 ventilators for patients.

From April 8-11, over 240 patients per day have needed ICU beds and over 190 people per day have required ventilators, while COVID-19 patients being discharged only maxed-out at 60 people per day.

According to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, Arizona’s coronavirus-related death toll will peak on April 27 at 28 deaths per day.

IHME also projects that the state will have to wait until June 9 to record zero COVID-19 deaths.

On Monday, AZDHS assistant director Jessica Rigler told KTAR News 92.3 FM that Arizona’s worst-case scenario is “a little unknown at this time.”

She went on to quote a colleague who described a shortage of 13,000 hospital beds as being dire for the state.

At the same time IHME predicts Arizona will face its peak of COVID-19 deaths, the research institute expects the state to have more than 6,000 medical beds available — 856 short of what Arizona will require.

IHME projects 177 of the aforementioned 856 medical beds will be ICU beds.

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