CONWAY — Memorial Hospital said Thursday it has gone back into “Code White” status for emergency operations as COVID-19 cases continue to climb statewide and hospital beds are filling up.
Code White means anything outside normal operations, which includes sending sicker patients to other hospitals, and at the present time Memorial may not be able to do that.
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