Health and Hospitals

Health

Public Hospitals Demand Doctors’ Notes from Absent Staffers

April 13, 2020, 9:41 p.m.May 4, 2020, 4:04 p.m.

Internal memo hints at questions over the merits of some call-outs — as at least five Health & Hospitals nurses have died from COVID-19 illnesses.

Health

‘An Insane Situation’: Inside the Chaos at Bellevue Hospital

April 12, 2020, 8:25 p.m.May 4, 2020, 4:04 p.m.

Nurses are pressured to certify they can perform duties they weren’t trained for, sources say, as equipment shortages persist and patient load grows.

Health

Some Medical Volunteers Get Slowed Down in Race to Help City

April 8, 2020, 10:08 p.m.Oct. 12, 2023, 7:31 a.m.

The logistics of recruiting and asg thousands of eager recruits with various levels of training and experience is proving a challenge.

Work

Construction on City Hospital Back Offices Goes On After Cuomo Work Halt

March 31, 2020, 10:48 p.m.April 6, 2020, 4:54 p.m.

New Manhattan istrative space for New York City Health + Hospitals has been deemed an “essential” exception to the governor’s “pause” order.

Health

Hospitals Nearing ICU Bed Limits as COVID-19 Surges in NYC

March 28, 2020, 3:48 p.m.May 30, 2024, 12:39 p.m.

New York City is in a race against time to set up enough beds for the sickest coronavirus patients. As of Thursday, 307 ICU beds were available.

Health

Three Out of Four Young NYC Coronavirus Fatalities Had Medical Conditions

March 27, 2020, 11:18 p.m.April 6, 2020, 4:54 p.m.

Some 20 New Yorkers under 45 have died of COVID-19. Fifteen of them had pre-existing health woes. The rates of pre-existing conditions rises with age.

Isolation

City Shuttles Homeless and Other Virus Patients to Hotels

March 25, 2020, 7:58 p.m.April 6, 2020, 4:54 p.m.

Officials line up 500 rooms to isolate shelter residents and public hospital patients with nowhere to go. But hotel workers won’t get masks.

Health

Queens Public Hospital Thrust into ‘Center of Crisis’ as Coronavirus Deaths Mount

March 25, 2020, 3:08 p.m.Oct. 12, 2023, 7:31 a.m.

Two dozen doctors and nurses were added Wednesday after a spike in COVID-19 deaths at Elmhurst Hospital, which has been deluged with patients.

Coronavirus

Frontline NYC Medical Staffers Describe Daily Battle at Struggling Hospitals

March 24, 2020, 10:04 p.m.April 6, 2020, 4:54 p.m.

They’re scrambling to make do with shrinking resources as the patient apex nears. “I am most worried I will get sick and die,” one Bronx doctor said.

Health and Hospitals

Public Hospitals Demand Doctors’ Notes from Absent Staffers

‘An Insane Situation’: Inside the Chaos at Bellevue Hospital

Some Medical Volunteers Get Slowed Down in Race to Help City

Construction on City Hospital Back Offices Goes On After Cuomo Work Halt

Hospitals Nearing ICU Bed Limits as COVID-19 Surges in NYC

Three Out of Four Young NYC Coronavirus Fatalities Had Medical Conditions

Queens Public Hospital Thrust into ‘Center of Crisis’ as Coronavirus Deaths Mount

Frontline NYC Medical Staffers Describe Daily Battle at Struggling Hospitals

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