Fond du Lac St. Agnes Hospital officials say the hospital is at bed capacity due to an increase volume of patients over the last few weeks. “We assess our bed capacity continuously,” hospital vice president and chief nursing officer Katherine Vergos told WFDL news. “We have patients accessing us from multiple different venues. Its pretty rare for us at St. Agnes Hospital that it gets this busy.” Vergos says she wants to make it clear that any critical patient is still being transported to the hospital and nobody is turned away at the door. “When we have times of bed capacity we have to work more closely with our EMS on what types of patients are brought to St. Agnes Hospital. We never, ever, ever turn away patients via an ambulance who are critical,” Vergos said. Vergos says a small number of non-critical patients transported by ambulance may be taken to another area hospital. “The patients that are brought in by ambulance are actually a very small percentage of the patients that we see in our emergency department. So when we talk about diversion or having patients coming in by ambulance go to other facilities it really is a small number. Most of them come in through the front door and that front door is never closed and will never be.” She also says the renovation work currently underway in the women and infants unit has no impact on patient beds.
