Long Beach is considering using the Queen Mary as some type of medical facility as it battles the spread of the coronavirus.
to help. The Mercy has roughly 800 medical staffers, 1,000 hospital beds and 12 operating rooms. The ship will house patients who do not have COVID-19 in an attempt to free up regional hospital beds for those who do. Just 17 patients were being treated there as of Friday, but officials said a number of hospitals were in the process of identifying more people who were suitable to be transferred.
, came a day after Long Beach announced that a temporary field hospital with 100 cots had been staged inside Long Beach Sports Arena and was ready to take patients from area hospitals if needed. “We are doing everything in our power to prepare for the medical and hospital surge in the weeks ahead,” Mayor Robert Garcia said Friday. “We’ve added hospital and clinic capacity by hundreds of beds and we will continue to do so.”
On Monday, a walk-up clinic will open at the Long Beach City College, Pacific Coast Campus to provide medical assessments to people who might normally visit an emergency room.Both the clinic and the field hospital will be staffed by members of the Long Beach Medical Reserves Corps, the city said.
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