Tents for Triage

Before Coronavirus, hospital waiting rooms were populated with people of varying degrees of illness or injury, commingled with visitors and family members there for support. Today these rooms are a very different landscape. Out of necessity, hospitals have been forced to reconsider not just these spaces but also, and more importantly, how people are triaged and admitted to hospitals.

A system in Texas has begun using tents outside of their facilities, as a way to manage this process. There, patients and staff are able to undergo initial screening for COVID-19. Based on their screening results, individuals are labeled with either a red or green sticker and routed to one of two areas for further testing/treatment.

Using this method, hospital personnel are able to quickly triage and administer care to all those entering their facilities.