The short-term measures come as Mount Sinai’s hospitals have crammed with roughly as many COVID sufferers because the system had on the peak of final winter’s surge, which got here in January, LoPachin stated within the memo. As of Wednesday morning, Mount Sinai had 570 sufferers hospitalized with COVID throughout the system, together with 42 in crucial care.
However Mount Sinai’s present inpatients are “general, a lot much less sick” than those that had been within the hospital final winter, LoPachin stated within the memo.
The sample holds for Mount Sinai’s emergency departments, which LoPachin stated are managing to deal with and launch many extra sufferers than in earlier surges, which means they don’t seem to be sick sufficient to be admitted to the hospital.
“This wave brings a lot much less extreme sickness and demise,” LoPachin wrote within the memo, including that experiences from South Africa point out town’s wave of circumstances attributable to the omicron variant might crest in mid-January.
Mount Sinai seems to be the primary well being system within the metropolis to enact restrictions on elective or non-emergency procedures because of the statewide surge in omicron circumstances.
An govt ordered issued earlier this month empowered the New York State Division of Well being to restrict non-essential, elective procedures at sure hospitals with a low proportion of accessible beds, however there are not any metropolis hospitals on the listing of 25 which might be at present topic to such restrictions.
“The Division retains the discretion to require any facility to restrict non-essential elective procedures and/or implement different actions to coordinate companies, as decided by DOH as mandatory to guard public well being,” Well being Division spokeswoman Erin Silk stated in an announcement.
This story first appeared in our sister publication, Crain’s New York Enterprise.