Page 6 - White Plains Hospital Annual Report 2020-2021
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COMMAND CENTER
For eight weeks at the beginning of the pandemic, the White Plains Hospital Senior Leadership Team hunkered down in a single room to plan how to address the crisis.
On March 9, 2020, when White Plains Hospital admitted its first coronavirus inpatient, a shift began to occur within its walls. Fairly quickly, the Hospital’s multidisciplinary teams of nurses, doctors, respiratory therapists, and many others learned to successfully tend to thousands of COVID patients—but at the very beginning, the palpable sense of anxiety and urgency over how to handle this unknown virus was felt by the whole staff. The flow of new information was fast and coming from many directions. New regulations and mandates were introduced daily by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and the Senior Leadership Team was faced with the challenge of determining how to transform the Hospital—ultimately expanding capacity by 50%—while making sure our staff and patients remained safe and protected against a virus that we knew little about.
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