OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – As rural Oklahoma hospitals continue to stay full, medical officials tell KFOR they are having to send more patients miles away to metro areas.

“I was frozen,” Perkins mother Beth Pate said.

Alice was fighting a 101-degree fever as she was rushed to Stillwater Medical Center.

“We have been planning, planning and planning, and now we are scared,” Shyla Eggers with Stillwater Medical Center said.

As of Wednesday, Stillwater Medical Center is still without vacancy.

Their public relations team tells KFOR they had to convert an office wing to patient rooms just to have overflow.

“We have seen outbreaks in the rural communities like Perkins and Ripley and Cushing,” Eggers said.

“We are seeing some of our rural communities hit pretty hard,” Eggers said.

More Oklahoma communities dipped into Tier Three of the Oklahoma State Department of Health’s four-tiered hospital surge plan on Wednesday night