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ANDREWS - The area’s major hospitals are on diversion plans for critical care due to less open beds, which means they cannot accept transfer patients from Permian Regional Medical Center (PRMC), hospital board members learned at Thursday’s meeting. Hospitals in Odessa, Midland and Lubbock are among those on diversion. “That means if a (patient from PRMC) needs an ICU bed or ventilated bed, they cannot accept them,” PRMC CEO Donny Booth explained. In the past two weeks, PRMC has had to look at other locations to transport patients, according to Booth. “We’re having to ship people to Dallas, San Antonio and even one ...

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