LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraskans who want sure forms of surgical procedures might want to wait longer below a public well being measure that may proceed by October.
Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts introduced Wednesday that he was extending the measure by Oct. 31 to assist short-staffed hospitals address current sufferers. The directed well being measure had been scheduled to run out on Thursday.
The order applies to inpatient Class D and E elective surgical procedures for all acute care, essential care and kids’s hospitals in Nebraska. Class D and E surgical procedures are elective procedures that may wait 4 weeks or longer with out considerably altering a affected person’s final result.
Even so, suspending procedures corresponding to knee surgical procedures might go away sufferers in additional ache that they might have skilled if that they had gotten them immediately.
The order could possibly be prolonged once more, relying on hospital capability. Ricketts imposed the order to assist hospitals with a glut of sufferers. A few of these sufferers have been hospitalized due to the coronavirus, however most are in for different causes.
