Governor Pritzker Announces Updates on Hospitalizations and Ventilator Capacity
State Placed Orders for 3,620 Ventilators, CA Gov Gavin Newsom Loans IL 100 Ventilators
 

[September 18, 2020]   Building on measures to address the health and safety of residents during the COVID-19 pandemic, Governor JB Pritzker provided an update on the state’s medical capacity to treat residents impacted by COVID-19.

“Since the earliest days of our COVID-19 response, my administration has worked with our state’s network of more than 200 hospitals to increase capacity in our existing health systems,” said Governor JB Pritzker. “These trends offer us further insight into the overall reach of COVID-19 in our state as we adjust the ‘how,’ ‘what’ and ‘where’ of our response.”

The governor and his administration remain committed to a multi-pronged approach to respond to COVID-19, putting in place early and rigorous mitigation measures to flatten the curve of new cases and increasing hospital and ventilator capacity to meet increased need.

As of April 6, 3,680 known COVID-19 patients and suspected COVID-19 patients were hospitalized. COVID-19 patients in an intensive care unit (ICU) totaled 1,166, and 821 patients are on a ventilator. Suspected COVID-19 patients are individuals under investigation and assumed to have COVID-19 for the purpose of medical treatment.

The governor and his administration are working with a statewide network of more than 200 hospitals to increase capacity in our existing health systems. As of April 6, Illinois now has 28,139 hospital beds, 2,709 of which are intensive care unit (ICU) beds.

As of April 6, the state has 35 percent of all ICU beds available, 949 of 2,709, and 57.1 percent of ventilators are available, 1,593 of 2,791.

TOTAL HOSPITAL BEDS USAGE (STATEWIDE)	AS OF APRIL 6
Total hospital beds	28,139
Open	11,993
In use by COVID patients	3,680
In use by non-COVID patients	12,466
Percent of hospital beds available	43%

TOTAL ICU USAGE (STATEWIDE)	AS OF APRIL 6
Total ICU beds	2,709
Open	949
In use by COVID patients	1,166
In use by non-COVID patients	594
Percent of ICU beds available	35%

TOTAL VENTILATOR USAGE (STATEWIDE)	AS OF APRIL 6
Total ventilators	2,791
Open	1,593
In use by COVID patients	821
In use by non-COVID patients	377
Percent of vents available	57%

The administration also made public regional data for ICU bed capacity across the state’s 11 regions.

LEGEND:

Column A	Region
Column B	Total ICU beds
Column C	Total ICU beds available
Column D	Total ICU beds in use
Column E	Percent of ICU beds available

A	B	C	D	E
1 – Rockford Area	148	102	46	68.9%
2 – Peoria Area	229	96	133	41.9%
3 – Springfield Area	104	53	51	51%
4 – Edwardsville Area	105	35	70	33.3%
5 – Marion Area	83	63	20	75.9%
6 – Champaign Area	136	80	56	58.8%
7 – Southwest Suburbs	372	77	295	20.7%
8 – West Suburbs	358	100	258	27.9%
9 – Northwest Suburbs	250	127	123	50.8%
10 – Northeast Suburbs	150	25	125	16.7%
11 – City of Chicago	774	191	583	24.7%

Using state level procurement, Illinois has placed orders for 3,620 ventilators. The governor and his administration are hard work to place additional orders soon.
 

Gov. Pritzker also announced that Governor Gavin Newsom and the state of California, will be lending 100 additional ventilators to Illinois. The ventilators are loaned through a state-to-state mutual aid request under the Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC). Illinois has also received 450 ventilators from the federal government.

[Office of the Governor JB Pritzker]