NEW YORK (BLOOMBERG) - New York City officials have started lodging health-care workers with coronavirus symptoms in repurposed hotels, providing a template for cities across the US looking for ways to keep hospital workers from infecting more people as they battle the pandemic.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
NEW YORK - New York City officials have started lodging health-care workers with coronavirus symptoms in repurposed hotels, providing a template for cities across the US looking for ways to keep hospital workers from infecting more people as they battle the pandemic.
Other cities could adopt similar plans after a big hotel operator on Monday offered up tens of thousands of rooms across the US. Aimbridge Hospitality, the largest operator of Marriott, Hilton and Hyatt hotels, announced a deal with Trestle Health and Housing to make more than 700 US hotels with 103,000 rooms available as surge capacity for hospitals and municipalities.
"For us what's really important is that the hotel is willing to take people who are exposed to Covid-19 and may be symptomatic. And because of the nature of being in isolation, we'll have to isolate them in a room, and we must have a way to provide feeding and laundry services," she said. Trestle and Aimbridge pre-published room and meal rates to ward off any concern of price gouging, from US$69 a night for a room at the Doubletree in Beaverton, Oregon, to US$106 a night for the Hilton in New York's Chelsea neighbourhood. Governments or hospitals will prepay for an entire hotel for 60 days, and Mulcahy says the hotels can turn them over in fewer than two weeks.
On Saturday, Apollo Global Management-owned Diamond Resorts, which sells time shares, announced that it would be allowing medical staff and first responders access to free suites. Last week, the owner of the Four Seasons on 57th Street in Manhattan said he would give doctors and nurses free housing at the luxury hotel, where rooms typically go for as much as US$6,500 a night.
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio made hotels an early plank of his Covid-19 response plan, saying in a March 17 release that the city had identified 250 rooms in five small hotels. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo named five other hotels, including the St. Regis New York and the Wythe Hotel in Brooklyn, as potential sites for non-critical care or medical personnel.
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