Here in New York, Gov. Cuomo is ordering hospitals to increase “managed bed capacity” by 25-50%. I’m wondering how exactly.
Some guesses:
Cancel elective surgery and turn all those recovery room beds into “managed beds”.
Assign nurses to ER beds and make people stay in the ER.
***edit: I was trying to make a joke with this one. Come to find out I’m not funny***
Tell women to stop having babies (not so sure about this one)
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Build actual new capacity in a tent outside in the parking lot.
We are creeping up in some critical capacity thresholds and it seems like a simple solution to just say “increase capacity”. How can we do it in on such short notice?
Thanks!
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Try being psychotic vulnerable in the hallway. It’s not fun.
Icu is not fun either. I didn’t have to share because I was an emergent rock star aortic dissection. Once again. Not fun.
Cancel vacations and ask personal to work more hours. Give nurses less administrative tasks
I had surgery in one of Chicago’s biggest, most advanced hospitals back in March (literally last day before non-emergency surgeries were cancelled). It’s designated as the primary pandemic hospital in Chicago. When the new main hospital was rebuild about 10 years ago, all rooms were designed as single rooms but had a full second set of ports for machines, oxygen, etc. to add second beds in a crisis. They may actually have to do so…
As an aside, the hospital also had a central atrium where check-in was, seating, restaurants, etc. we’re and they had ports and clips built into the walls and columns to convert into a second ER in a crisis, too.
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