'In one shift, I pronounced six people dead.' New York's Saint Joseph’s Medical Center, besieged by coronavirus patients in one of the poorest sections of Yonkers, has also seen half its staff test positive for the disease. AP was given access to the ER.
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The Yonkers hospital, which sits near the Bronx border and serves one of the poorest sections of Westchester County’s largest city, has been besieged by the new coronavirus. Half of the approximately 280 staff members who were tested for the disease were positive — with another 25 to 30 still awaiting results, according to Dean Civitello, the vice president for human resources.
Staff from other areas of the hospital was redeployed to manage patients and additional treatment areas were set up to augment the hospital’s 194 acute-care beds. “We’ve had many family members and groups, and we’ve even had people from the same family who have died within days of each other,” Leno said.
Beyond the unprecedented medical challenges, the outbreak caused financial hardships for the Catholic hospital that has served Yonkers since 1888. Beds and equipment had to be bought or rented to meet Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s mandate for hospitals to increase their capacity, and personal protective equipment had to be purchased at much higher costs than usual as normal suppliers ran out.
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