With COVID cases climbing, Wabash General Hospital is implementing steps in the event cases spike. Chief of Staff Dr. Donald Bisby told the WGH Board of Directors Monday that information from the hospital’s entire geographic service region of 35,000 people will be used to determine if there’s a high transmission rate of COVID. That would equate to six people being hospitalized at Wabash General.

Hospital Executive VP of Clinical Services and Chief Nursing Officer Kim Pearson told the board that there are currently no patients hospitalized with COVID. But, there were two last week…

Bisby said the metric had to be developed to monitor the cases since the CDC stopped distributing COVID transmission levels.