Leonardtown, MD.— TheBayNet Staff has received confirmation from St. Mary’s County Communications Emergency Operations Center that Medstar St. Mary’s Hospital is currently on a yellow and red alert.
The definition of a red alert states that The hospital has no ECG monitored beds available and requests that patients who are likely to require this type of care, not be transported to their facility. ECG monitored bed is defined as any adult in-patient critical care bed, including specialty critical care units and telemetry beds. The hospital requests that all priority II and III ECG monitored patients are transported to the next closest appropriate hospital.
Patients will be transported to adjacent hospitals in the Tri- County area, which are Calvert Memorial Hospital and University of Maryland Charles Regional Medical Center.