Ballad Reports Another Record Number Of Patients…Positive Cases Near 20 Percent

The numbers continue to rise at Ballad Health Care in northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia. Tuesday, Ballad says the number of patients in its facilities jumped from 260 on Monday to 287 Tuesday. The positivity rate is just shy of twenty percent. Ballad reports 27 Designated COVID-19 beds are now available and another 51 patients are listed in the Intensive Care Unit and 30 more patients are using ventilators.