With capacity stretched thin, U.S. hospitals are rushing to find beds for a coming flood of patients, opening older closed hospitals, turning single rooms into doubles and re-purposing other medical buildings.
In this photo provided by Kelly McCarty, McCarty is shown with her husband, Bill, and their daughter Langley. Kelly McCarty is one of several dozen expectant Moms who had planned to give birth in the birthing center of Swedish Medical Center's facility in Edmonds, Wash., north of Seattle, but instead will go to an affiliated hospital in Everett, Wash., because the Edmonds birthing center is being repurposed to treat victims of the new coronavirus.
In New York, the city’s convention center is being turned into a temporary hospital. At Mount Sinai Morningside hospital, heart surgeons, cardiologists and cardiovascular nurses now care for coronavirus patients in a converted cardiac unit. Floating hospitals from the U.S. Navy are heading to Los Angeles and, eventually, New York. Military mobile hospitals are promised to Washington state.
“Better to be over-prepared than react in the moment,” said Melissa Short, who directs women’s health for Seattle’s Swedish Medical Center, which is using data from China and Italy as it attempts to double its capacity to 2,000 beds. Swedish’s Edmonds facility — where McCarty had planned to deliver — announced Saturday it is closing its 7th floor birth center temporarily, gaining 35 beds for the expected influx. McCarty will go instead to an affiliated hospital in Everett.
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