ALBANY, N.Y. (WENY) – The New York State Department of Health has identified 40 hospitals that have met the state’s threshold for “high risk regions” or low capacity facilities, according to new figures released over the weekend.
That is an increase in 19 hospitals since last check on Jan. 4. These hospitals now mush stop non-essential and non-urgent elective procedures for a minimum of two weeks.
Locally, Brooks-TLC Hospital System, Inc. and Olean General Hospital are among hospitals in our region stopping ‘non-essential’ services.
“We will use every available tool to help ensure that hospitals can manage the COVID-19 winter surge,” said Acting State Health Commissioner Dr. Mary T. Bassett. “We cannot return to the early months of the pandemic when hospitals were overwhelmed.”
Department of Health officials have assessed hospital capacity across the state weekly since Dec. 13, after New York Governor Hochul signed an executive order in November, allowing the Department of Health to order hospitals to stop performing in-hospital elective surgery? if the state identifies the facilities to be in high risk areas, or have a strained and limited bed capacity.
According to the release by the DoH, criteria that the organization uses to identify high-risk regions includes, “low current regional bed capacity with 90 percent or more beds occupied based on the previous 7-day average; or 85-90% occupancy rate based on the previous 7-day average and a new COVID-19 hospital admission rate for the region (previous 7-day average per 100,000 population) greater than 4 percent.”
Continue reading below for a full list of hospitals identified in the report.
Mohawk Valley Region:
Faxton-St Luke’s Healthcare St Luke’s Division
Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital
St. Mary’s Healthcare
A.O. Fox Memorial Hospital
Cobleskill Regional Hospital
Little Falls Hospital
Nathan Littauer Hospital
Rome Memorial Hospital, Inc
St Elizabeth Medical Center
St. Mary’s Healthcare – Amsterdam Memorial Campus
Finger Lakes Region:
F.F. Thompson Hospital
Geneva General Hospital
Newark-Wayne Community Hospital
Rochester General Hospital
The Unity Hospital of Rochester
United Memorial Medical Center North Street Campus
Clifton Springs Hospital and Clinic
Highland Hospital
Medina Memorial Hospital
Nicholas H. Noyes Memorial Hospital
Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hospital of Yates County Inc
Strong Memorial Hospital
Wyoming County Community Hospital
Central New York Region:
Crouse Hospital
Oneida Health Hospital
Oswego Hospital
St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center
University Hospital SUNY Health Science Center
UPSTATE University Hospital at Community General
Auburn Community Hospital
Community Memorial Hospital Inc
Guthrie Cortland Medical Center
Impacted Hospitals in Other Regions:
Brooks-TLC Hospital System, Inc.
Mount St Mary’s Hospital and Health Center
Erie County Medical Center
Mercy Hospital of Buffalo
Sisters of Charity Hospital
The University of Vermont Health Network – Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital
Bertrand Chaffee Hospital
Olean General Hospital
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