The only hospital on the Rockaways could soon lose almost all of its beds under a proposal to convert it into a “micro-hospital” — which would also see up to 1,000 jobs lost.
State health department officials have backed plans to effectively gut St. John’s Episcopal Hospital in Far Rockaway, despite its pivotal role during the coronavirus pandemic, according to the hospital board.
The hospital treated Queens’ first-known COVID-19 case nearly a year ago, and is in the zip code that had the Big Apple’s second-highest death rate during the peak.
St. John’s is already the only full-service hospital on the peninsula — with 257 beds and 1,126 staff — but a consulting firm working with the state has made suggestions to drastically cut capacity.
The most extreme proposal would transform it into a 15-bed “micro-hospital” — which sources say is the Health Department’s favored proposal.
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It definitely follows Cuomo’s theme of making it impossible to protect lives