For the first time during the pandemic, Drew Miller was unable to send a severely ill COVID patient to the intensive care unit. Miller and other staff at the Kearny County Hospital, in southwestern Kansas, had done what they could last weekend, putting the patient on a maximum oxygen flow. But the closest ICU in the area was one county over — St. Catherine Hospital in Garden City — and it was full. The nearest open ICU bed was in Kansas City, seven hours away.
Source: Leavenworth Times
