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Frontline NYC Medical Staffers Describe Daily Battle at Struggling Hospitals
https://thecity.nyc/2020/03/nyc-medical-staffers-describe-hospital-coronavirus-struggles.html
By Yoav Gonen, Virginia Breen, Greg B. Smith, Rosa Goldensohn, Josefa Velasquez and Ann Choi
Across a city on edge, doctors, nurses and lab technicians working the coronavirus front lines are embracing improvisation as a means of survival — finding new ways to make shrinking resources work against an enemy that claims more casualties by the day.
Under trying circumstances from Bellevue in Manhattan to New York Presbyterian in Queens to Montefiore Medical Center in The Bronx, medical staffers are devising protocols on the fly to protect themselves and aid their ailing patients.
At the same time, the hospitals are creeping closer to the line where their resources — including intensive care unit (ICU) beds and ventilators for patients, and N95 masks and other protective gear for medical workers — begin to get outstripped by crushing need.
“The apex could be here in as little as 14 to 21 days, and you’re talking about a very significant logistical operational movement to increase that number of hospital beds and do everything that you need to do related to the increased hospital beds,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday during a press briefing at a soon-to-be makeshift hospital at the Javits Center in Manhattan.
<snip>
‘WE’RE DROWNING HERE’
NewYork-Presbyterian Queens, Flushing
Hospital Beds: 535
ICU Beds: 29
<snip>
NEW BATTLE GARB
Bellevue Hospital, Manhattan
Hospital Beds: 912
ICU Beds: 40
<snip>
‘LIKE A WAR ZONE’
Montefiore Medical Center, The Bronx
Hospital Beds: 816
ICU Beds: 48
<snip>
‘WE’RE OUT OF FENTANYL’
Lenox Hill Hospital, Manhattan
Hospital Beds: 632
ICU Beds: 15
<snip>
‘WORRIED I WILL DIE’
NewYork-Presbyterian / Columbia University Irving Medical Center, Washington Heights
Hospital Beds: 1,022
ICU Beds: 99
</snip>
By Yoav Gonen, Virginia Breen, Greg B. Smith, Rosa Goldensohn, Josefa Velasquez and Ann Choi
Across a city on edge, doctors, nurses and lab technicians working the coronavirus front lines are embracing improvisation as a means of survival — finding new ways to make shrinking resources work against an enemy that claims more casualties by the day.
Under trying circumstances from Bellevue in Manhattan to New York Presbyterian in Queens to Montefiore Medical Center in The Bronx, medical staffers are devising protocols on the fly to protect themselves and aid their ailing patients.
At the same time, the hospitals are creeping closer to the line where their resources — including intensive care unit (ICU) beds and ventilators for patients, and N95 masks and other protective gear for medical workers — begin to get outstripped by crushing need.
“The apex could be here in as little as 14 to 21 days, and you’re talking about a very significant logistical operational movement to increase that number of hospital beds and do everything that you need to do related to the increased hospital beds,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday during a press briefing at a soon-to-be makeshift hospital at the Javits Center in Manhattan.
<snip>
‘WE’RE DROWNING HERE’
NewYork-Presbyterian Queens, Flushing
Hospital Beds: 535
ICU Beds: 29
<snip>
NEW BATTLE GARB
Bellevue Hospital, Manhattan
Hospital Beds: 912
ICU Beds: 40
<snip>
‘LIKE A WAR ZONE’
Montefiore Medical Center, The Bronx
Hospital Beds: 816
ICU Beds: 48
<snip>
‘WE’RE OUT OF FENTANYL’
Lenox Hill Hospital, Manhattan
Hospital Beds: 632
ICU Beds: 15
<snip>
‘WORRIED I WILL DIE’
NewYork-Presbyterian / Columbia University Irving Medical Center, Washington Heights
Hospital Beds: 1,022
ICU Beds: 99
</snip>
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