MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Texas — The St. Luke's Conroe emergency room in Conroe was closed Tuesday night due to staff shortages at its main emergency department in The Woodlands, the hospital said.
The closure was made in direct response to the rise in COVID-19 patients that have been coming in for several weeks.
"In response to capacity and critical staffing shortages within St. Luke's Health-The Woodlands Hospital, we have temporarily closed the St. Luke's Health Emergency Room–Conroe location, moving all urgent hospital operations to our main Emergency Department at our hospital in The Woodlands Hospital," the hospital said in a statement.
The hospital said it made several other adjustments as well.
- We continue to monitor and manage the increase in hospitalizations of COVID-19 patients and non-COVID-19 patients.
- Assigned designated points of care to ensure that we triage and treat patient needs and allocate hospital staff and resource availability appropriately on a daily basis.
- We have closed St. Luke's Health Emergency Room–Conroe and have moved all care to The Woodlands Hospital to accommodate the current increase in hospitalizations.
- We are performing urgent and emergent cases as deemed clinically necessary by our physicians, and are reviewing all other procedures on a case-by-case basis.
The hospital is urging people to get vaccinated and follow masking and social distancing guidelines.
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