Shasta County Health and Human Services Agency says, it’s setting up a temporary field hospital at the Redding Civic Auditorium.
Its door are not open, but it is there ready, if and when it’s needed.
The field hospital in redding is set to go up at the redding civic auditorium.
Action news now reporter ana torrea joins us live.
Any idea when the hospital will be ready to receive patients ana?
Hayley - shasta county health and human services says right now they're just setting up so it's ready if*an* when they need it.
*take so* trt:06 dr. karen ramstrom shasta county health and human services agency health officer i think it's wonderful that we have this resource, this federal asset should we need it dr. karen ramstrom's talking about a new temporary field hospital going up at the redding civic auditorium.
This hospital will have up to 125 beds.
And will take patients not severely sick or who have the coronavirus take so* trt:04 robert folden mercy medical hospital we would use that field hospital for lesser sick patients.
The auditorium beat out the anderson county fairgrounds and shasta college for the hospital.
Take so* trt: 07 kenneth luke mercy medical hospital we felt that the redding civic auditorium was the best selection because of its close proximity to the hospitals.
Ana stan* trt:24 (i took out your first sentence of your standup, it's redundant) but the building is right next to some areas frequent by some people.
Like the sundial bridge and the sheraton hotel right behind me.
And i asked people if they knew this field hospital would be set up.
Even so people i spoke to tell me: that they're all for the temporary field hospital.
Take so* trt:07 sylvia coustier lives in redding it's good to have a secondary plan and they need something in case it really does hit up here, for all the outlying areas and north of us because they believe it will do more than just provide extra support for the hospitals... take so* trt:06 warren mather lives in city of shasta lake if it's necessary for the combat of the pandemic then im all for it.
Take so* trt:03 sylvia coustier lives in redding just in case, this thing is pretty bad, yeah i think it's a smart move.
It's also another place for patients to go to without putting themselves at risk.
# shasta county health and human services says: they plan to keep the field hospital up for 6- months or longer.
Live in redding, ana torrea, action news now coverage you can count on.
Starting monday: the us army corps of engineers will be moving into the redding civic auditorium... we also just learned that oroville hospital is requireing all employees to wear masks.# again,
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A temporary field hospital could be coming to Redding