Ricketts: State Rescinding DHM, Inpatient Elective Surgeries Can Resume

LINCOLN, NE (October 21, 2021) – Governor Pete Ricketts announced today that the State will rescind its Directed Health Measure (DHM) that had temporarily suspended inpatient Class D and Class E elective surgeries for all Acute Care, Critical Care, and Children’s Hospitals in Nebraska.  The DHM will be rescinded at 11:59 PM on tonight.  The order will allow Class D and Class E elective surgeries to resume as of tomorrow.

 Ricketts said that coronavirus hospitalizations in Nebraska have fallen below 10% of statewide hospital bed capacity (7-day rolling average).  With the change, updates to the Nebraska Hospital Capacity Dashboard—hosted at dhhs.ne.gov—will return to a weekly schedule as long as COVID-19 hospitalizations remain below the 10% capacity threshold.

Daily COVID-19 data will be reported for today (Thursday, October 21^st).  Then, the next update to the dashboard will occur on Wednesday, October 27^th.  The Nebraska Hospital Capacity Dashboard will subsequently be updated once per week on Wednesdays and will no longer include demographic data and county-specific statistics.

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