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AP Exclusive: 'It’s Been a Nightmare' for Yonkers ER Doc
Saint Joseph’s Medical Center is located just over a mile from the northern border of New York City's borough of the Bronx.
By Associated Press, Wire Service Content April 22, 2020,
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"It’s been a nightmare. We have a volume of sick people like you can’t believe. In one shift, I pronounced six people dead," said Dr. Anthony Leno, the hospital's director of emergency medicine, who before the outbreak on average pronounced one dead in a 10-12 hour shift.
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.
The Associated Press was granted access to the facility's emergency room, which at one point earlier in the pandemic had 28 patients waiting to be treated and ambulances lined up outside with more, said Dr. James Neuendorf, Saint Joseph's medical director.
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.
The adjustments meant “we were able to take care of a large number of patients — well over above our numbers that we normally see on a daily basis,” Neuendorf said.
more:
http://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2020-04-22/ap-exclusive-er-staff-saves-lives-suffers-in-hot-spot
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