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Some hospitals in Mass. moved to ‘high risk’ due to capacity crunch
There’s a new health care crisis impacting hospitals in Massachusetts.
The Department of Public Health has declared much of the state’s health care system “high risk” as of last week because of a backlog of patients waiting to be discharged.
The greater Boston area, as well as northeastern Massachusetts, has been elevated to a “Tier 3” risk level – on a scale of 0-4.
The Massachusetts Health and Hospital Association said the recent serious financial challenges at Steward Health Care have been a major catalyst for the hospital capacity crunch.
Those areas join southeastern Massachusetts, the Cape and the Islands, which has been Tier 3 since the beginning of 2023.
That designation has been due in part to the prolonged closure of Norwood Hospital due to flooding, as well as the fire at Brockton Hospital.
MHA said on any given day, more than one thousand people who are awaiting discharge from hospitals are stuck in those facilities with no ability to be transferred to the next level of care. Staffing issues, as well as a robust cold and flu season, have exacerbated the problem.
MHA said the crisis could result in hospitals slashing elective, non-urgent procedures and services.
To try avoiding that, Massachusetts General Hospital asked the state last month to add more than 90 inpatient beds. But that would take time to implement.
Man arrested in Danvers standoff expected to face judge
The man arrested in a two-hour police standoff in Danvers, Massachusetts, is expected to face a judge Tuesday.
Joseph Hurley, 62, was arrested after barricading himself in his trailer on Monday. But before he even barricaded himself, police said he shot a woman multiple times and then while barricaded, also shot at officers.
Massachusetts State Police, a SWAT team and Danvers police responded to a mobile home park on Newbury Street after a woman reported she’d been shot multiple times and had escaped to a neighbor’s trailer, according to the Essex County District Attorney’s Office.
Police arrived to find Hurley still inside that home. That’s when he fired several rounds at the officers through a window, the district attorney’s office said.
After a nearly two-hour long standoff, Hurley was taken into custody.
He was charged with armed assault with intent to murder, three counts of assault with a dangerous weapon, unlawful possession of a firearm and unlawful possession of ammunition.
The woman that was shot was taken to the hospital Monday and at last check, she was in critical but stable condition, state police said.
Hurley is scheduled to appear at Salem District Court Tuesday morning.
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MBTA bus hits teenager on Washington Street in Boston
A pedestrian is expected to survive after he was hit by an MBTA bus Monday evening in Boston.
The crash happened on Washington Street near where Roslindale and Jamaica Plain meet. Witnesses identified the victim as a 19-year-old with special needs.
“We just heard the bang, and when we looked, he was just flying in the air,” said Jose Calderon, who knows the victim.
Calderon ran into the street to tend to him until paramedics arrived.
“We tried to turn him around, but we saw all the blood,” said Calderon. “We didn’t want to move him in case he got injured or anything like that.”
Calderon says the teen was conscious and alert, and he had just been inside the Emporium Gas Station and Car Wash before trying to cross busy Washington Street to head home.
“It is dangerous,” said Calderon. “If you don’t look both ways before you cross, you’re going to get hit, 100%.”
With the Forest Hills MBTA station less than half a mile away, many buses from several routes travel the stretch of Washington Street.
Calderon says he told police and the bus driver involved in the crash that he was going too fast.
The MBTA says the crash is under investigation.
