"It's kind of surreal to see a field hospital sitting in the middle of Central Park," a nurse practitioner said.
Shelly Kelly, a nurse practitioner from Tulsa, Oklahoma, never imagined that on her first trip to New York City, she would be unable to visit some of the area's biggest attractions.
The field hospital will have 68 beds, 10 of them in a makeshift intensive care unit for patients who need ventilators. It took 48 hours to build and will be operational by Tuesday, said Melissa Nystrom, a spokeswoman for Samaritan's Purse, which is working with Mount Sinai Health System. Story continues"I think that just speaks to the resilience and the flexibility of our health care system here in the United States — that we can take down barriers like that and bring in a field hospital at a time when our health care system is overwhelmed," Kelly said."It's just amazing to see the creativity and thinking outside the box that happens here."Cuomo said Monday that 1,218 people had died from the virus in New York state, up from 965 Sunday.
"I know I'm going to be working in an ICU, and that's where a lot of the deaths happen, and so, yes, I am prepared for that," Kelly said."As prepared as you can possibly be as a practitioner walking into that kind of situation." When Samaritan's Purse responds to disasters inside the U.S., like hurricanes, it's usually with general efforts after the fact. It has never before responded in a medical capacity within U.S. borders, according to Tenpenny and Kelly.
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