{"id":50219,"date":"2021-08-27T18:17:23","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T22:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=50219"},"modified":"2021-08-27T18:17:32","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T22:17:32","slug":"hospital-expands-morgue-capacity-by-leasing-refrigerated-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2021\/08\/hospital-expands-morgue-capacity-by-leasing-refrigerated-trailer\/","title":{"rendered":"Hospital Expands Morgue Capacity by Leasing Refrigerated Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/trailer.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50220\" width=\"165\" height=\"113\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Lee Health at Cape Coral Hospital leased a refrigerated trailer to expand its morgue capacity as COVID-19 hospitalizations, deaths rise in the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/armando-llechu-1-723x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50221\" width=\"-533\" height=\"-755\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/armando-llechu-1-723x1024.jpg 723w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/armando-llechu-1-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/armando-llechu-1.jpg 760w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><figcaption> Lee Health\u2019s Chief Officer of Operations Armando Llechu <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>To increase its morgue capacity, Cape Coral Hospital has leased a refrigerated trailer, as COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths continue to increase in the hospital system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lee Health\u2019s Chief Officer of Operations Armando Llechu said the hospital can house four bodies in its morgue, but because of the growing number of COVID deaths, they have run out of space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We leased a refrigerated trailer as a precautionary measure to expand the capacity of our morgue in case it is needed during this fourth wave of the pandemic. The trailer is not in use at the moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee Health at Cape Coral Hospital leased a refrigerated trailer to expand its morgue capacity as COVID-19 hospitalizations, deaths rise in the area. To increase its morgue capacity, Cape Coral&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":50220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[615],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50222,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50219\/revisions\/50222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}