LONG ISLAND: NY National Guard to be sent to A. Holly Patterson nursing home, others statewide

AM NY: Upstate hospitals feel hospital capacity crunch, Hochul deploys National Guard for nursing homes staffing 

Amid a growing hospital capacity shortage upstate, Governor Kathy Hochul announced Monday that she will deploy the National Guard to help staff nursing homes to free up more space at health care facilities.

 QUOTE: "We have surveyed our National Guard resources, we know that there are numbers who have EMT training or health care backgrounds, and we can deploy them in a targeted way to the health care facilities that nursing homes or long term health care facilities where they're having a shortage," Governor Kathy Hochul said.

"One of the reasons we have additional individuals still in hospitals who are nonCOVID, are ready to be discharged, is that the nursing homes don't have enough staff to take them," Hochul added.

Hospitals in upstate regions are at much lower capacity than in New York City and surrounding areas....

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