The COVID unit at Harborview Medical Center. (File photo by Karen Ducey/Getty Images)
While Washington’s hospitals are severely strained, we are not yet at the point of having to enact crisis standards of care like Northern Idaho has done.
Idaho’s medical crisis is ‘becoming our problem’ in Washington
However, health leaders warn we are getting dangerously close.
“Crisis standards of care” is a medical designation primarily used in the context of a disaster — such as an earthquake, volcano, or a pandemic like COVID-19. It means that a catastrophe has caused so many medical problems and overwhelmed the health care infrastructure to such
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