HOSPITAL NUMBERS

Three intensive care unit beds were available across four Oklahoma City health systems on Monday amid a wave of COVID-19 cases in the state, according to capacity figures they reported.

Integris Health, Mercy, OU Health and SSM Health St. Anthony began reporting their own capacity data in August, which they said was an effort to be transparent about the impact of the surge on their hospitals.

The reports will come every Monday, Wednesday and Friday “until our health care community begins to see relief from this current surge,” the health systems said.

Here are the latest figures reported by each of the four health systems, as of Monday. The reports are a snapshot in time, as hospital capacity can change hour-to-hour as patients are admitted and discharged.

h Integris Health: 137 COVID-19 patients in its hospitals, down from 154 in the previous report. Three ICU beds were available. Of the COVID-19 patients in its hospitals, 87% were unvaccinated.

h Mercy: 93 COVID-19 patients in Mercy hospitals, up from 84 in the previous report. Of those, 50 were at Mercy Hospital Oklahoma City, up from 39 in the previous report. Mercy had no ICU beds available. At Mercy Hospital Oklahoma City, 90% of COVID-19 patients were unvaccinated.

h OU Health: Across all three of its hospitals, including Oklahoma Children’s Hospital OU Health, there were 45 COVID-19 patients, up from 42 in the previous report. Zero ICU beds were available. 87% of the COVID-19 patients were unvaccinated.

h SSM Health St. Anthony: 106 COVID-19 patients in SSM Health St. Anthony Hospitals, no change from the previous report. No ICU beds were available. An average of 90% of its hospitalized COVID-19 patients were unvaccinated.

The state Health Department has also resumed releasing daily hospital capacity reports that use data hospitals report to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

The Health Department’s latest report Monday showed 53 ICU beds were available across the state, including 17 in the Oklahoma City area. The central region reported negative-one ICU bed available, which a Health Department spokesman previously said was the result of a hospital increasing its patient ratios, so staff were caring for more patients than usual.

State health officials have acknowledged the discrepancies between their reported data on hospital capacity and what individual hospitals were reporting and said the state was working with hospital leaders to address those discrepancies.