Capital Region hospitals limit elective surgeries, prepare for COVID surge | The Daily Gazette
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ALBANY — Hospitals in the eight Capital Region counties said Tuesday they will begin to limit elective surgical procedures to boost their ability to treat COVID-19 patients.
The COVID patient census hit 417 in the region’s hospitals Tuesday, 70 of them in the intensive care unit, and the concern is that another surge of patients sick with the virus will start to arrive in early January, after Christmas celebrations.
Leaders of the hospitals, who began collaborating on a response to the pandemic before it reached New York, have been holding daily conference calls ever since. They held one of their periodic public updates Tuesday at Albany Medical Center and announced their decision to start conserving resources.