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VHHA Report: More than 8,700 COVID-19 Hospitalizations from April to June

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Since early on in the pandemic, the Virginia Hospital and Healthcare Association has been tracking several COVID-related metrics. That includes hospitalization data, and information from the second quarter of 2020 is in.

The time period from April to June saw just over 8,700 hospitalizations from the virus. Many of those came from northern Virginia, which was experiencing a significant surge in cases at the time. 

David Vaamonde is VHHA’s vice president of data analytics. The organization has been analyzing many different factors about patients, including racial information and type of insurance.

“When looking at the COVID-19 volume, Medicare was approximately 38-39% of all the COVID-19 volume,” he explains.

He says that makes sense considering the average age of Virginians hospitalized during that period was 68. 

Vaamonde adds the average length of stay was just shy of two weeks. VHHA tracked chronic conditions of those hospitalized as well – the most-prevalent of which was hypertension. 

He says, "this is followed by chronic kidney disease, hyperlipidemia, diabetes.” 

The overall number of inpatient and emergency department discharges dropped significantly during the first half of the year. That can likely be attributed to a halt in elective surgeries, as hospitals switched gears to focus on COVID-19 patients.

Nick Gilmore is a meteorologist, news producer and reporter/anchor for RADIO IQ.