NY Gov. Cuomo Orders Hospitals to Take Steps to Fight Covid

The video discusses the dramatic increase in hospitalization rates since June, reaching 3500, and the need for hospitals to balance patient loads to prevent overwhelming individual facilities. It highlights the importance of distributing patients among hospitals within a system to manage capacity effectively, learning from past experiences where some hospitals were overwhelmed while others had available capacity.

What was the hospitalization rate at the end of June?

• 3500

• 2500

• 1500

• 900

By how much did the hospitalization rate increase from the end of June?

• By 1000

• By 500

• By 2600

• By 3500

What is the purpose of balancing the patient load within hospital systems?

• To reduce the number of hospitals

• To ensure no single hospital is overwhelmed

• To increase the number of patients

• To increase hospital revenue

What is a key strategy to manage hospital capacity effectively?

• Building new hospitals

• Increasing hospital beds

• Balancing patient load across hospitals

• Hiring more doctors

What was a major issue faced during the last hospitalization surge?

• Lack of medical staff

• Overwhelmed hospitals despite available capacity elsewhere

• Insufficient medical supplies

• Inadequate patient records