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This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateThe U.S. Army will open a 30- to 50-bed COVID-19 care unit within United Memorial Medical Center, the Acres Homes hospital serving one of Houston’s hardest hit communities.An Army specialty unit of 85 doctors, nurses and other personnel will arrive at United Memorial this week and begin accepting COVID-19 patients transferred from other hospitals, according to the Southeast Texas Regional Advisory Council, which coordinates the region’s emergency medical responses.“This is certainly a step in the right direction,” said Darrell Pile, the council’s chief executive officer. “While it will not solve our saturation problems completely, it will reduce the number of patients sitting in hospitals needing a higher level of care.”A spokesman for U.S. Army North said team members began arriving in Texas Monday and should be deployed in Houston by the end of the week. He would not confirm the hospital was United Memorial.But Dr. Joseph Varon, United Memorial’s chief medical officer, said he will meet Tuesday with U.S. Army officials to hammer out logistics. While he said the beds his hospital is supplying is a good start to quell the rising crisis in Houston, it is “not even close” to enough.SETRAC will coordinate which patients will be sent to the new unit, Varon said. Varon added he has no idea why his small hospital was chosen.“Maybe because I have been making so much noise,” said Varon. The hospital has been the focus of local, national and even international press reports, including the Houston Chronicle, whose reporters and a photographer have been given access to the COVID-19 intensive care unit.As of Monday United Memorial has 60 admitted COVID-19 patients. And while it has another 20 beds that could be pressed into service, there is not enough staff to treat more patients, he said.Varon said his preference would be for the new unit to concentrate on those patients whose condition is less serious so they can be moved through quickly to make room for new patients. On Monday he said he and all of the staff at United Memorial were exhausted. But mostly what he feels is frustration as doctors for weeks have been warning of a coming spike in cases.“It’s going to get ugly before it’s nice,” he said, “this was a foreseeable story that no one wanted to hear.”The private, for-profit hospital is situated in one of Houston’s historically low-income neighborhoods, home to some of the region’s highest numbers of cases.SETRAC Monday also announced that Houston-area rehabilitation facilities in Willowbrook, The Woodlands and Pearland will be utilized for the care of recovering COVID-19 patients. The facilities are three locations of the Medical Resort.todd.ackerman@chron.comjenny.deam@chron.com

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateThe U.S. Army will open a 30- to 50-bed COVID-19 care unit within United Memorial Medical Center, the Acres Homes hospital serving one of Houston’s hardest hit communities.An Army specialty unit of 85 doctors, nurses and other personnel will arrive at United Memorial this week and begin accepting COVID-19 patients transferred from other hospitals, according to the Southeast Texas Regional Advisory Council, which coordinates the region’s emergency medical responses.“This is certainly a step in the right direction,” said Darrell...

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