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COVID-19: NY Implements 'Surge & Flex' Hospital Protocol COVID-19: NY Implements 'Surge & Flex' Hospital Protocol
Covid-19: NY Implements 'Surge & Flex' Hospital Protocol New York hospitals are taking emergency steps to ensure that neither the public nor private hospital systems get overwhelmed as the state continues to see a spike in new COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations. Gov. Andrew Cuomo said this week that the state’s Department of Health has instructed hospitals to implement the “surge and flex” plan, which includes the expansion of bed capacity by 25 percent and preparing to balance the potential load of patients within hospital systems. According to Cuomo, the state has 54,000 hospital beds, and if they increase capacity to the max, can reach 75,000…

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