St. Luke’s Hospital celebrates zero COVID-19 patients in Kansas City’s ICU
Staff at Saint Luke’s Hospital in Kansas City on Monday celebrated a milestone: zero COVID-19 patients in the facility’s intensive care unit.
Hospital officials said in a post on the health system’s Facebook page that the lack of patients suffering from serious COVID infections in the intensive care unit signified a rare moment for hospital staff.
“While the pandemic is not yet over, this moment is a special occasion for hope and celebration,” St. Luke’s Health System said in the post.
The hospital posted a photo of members of the medical and surgical trauma team, which operate in the hospital’s intensive care unit, in which they appeared to smile behind masks at the news.
According to officials, the team was the first to treat COVID patients at St. Luke’s in March 2020.
The team was in crisis mode as recently as late January as the hospital’s ICU recorded some of the highest numbers of COVID patients yet. The majority of the patients suffering from severe COVID infection were unvaccinated.
Since then the number of cases across the metro have begun to stagnate.
Over the last seven days in the Kansas City area, 85 people have tested positive for COVID.
About 59% of people living in Kansas City have been fully vaccinated.
Throughout the state of Missouri about 56% of the population has been fully vaccinated.
