At Copper Queen Community Hospital in Bisbee, the operating room in the 13-room health care center closed its doors temporarily, canceling 17 routine colonoscopies as a result, and the hospital entered crisis standards of care, according to Chief Medical Officer Dr. Edward Miller.
The cause was an exhausting number of severe COVID-19 cases that overwhelmed the rural hospital and further delayed care for those who needed it, including one patient on dialysis and another with congestive heart failure.
Those patients were transferred out of Copper Queen. Miller said two advanced cases of colon cancer were found last week — a potentially fatal outcome of delayed care.
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