The outbreak was an unprecedented test of the New York City healthcare ecosystem. HSS turned into the storm by voluntarily suspending all but the most urgent orthopedic surgeries and transforming within days into a multispecialty hospital treating overflow patients from neighboring providers.
To treat critical care and urgent medical surgery patients, we converted operating rooms into intensive care units (ICUs) and anesthesia machines into ventilators, and hundreds of frontline staff adapted to meet unimaginable challenges.
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