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Metropolitan Hospital's emergency room capacity issues
1:09:41
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Council Member Ayala describes the urgent need for expanding Metropolitan Hospital's emergency room capacity and the impact of current limitations on patient care and community trust.
- The emergency room has a capacity for 25 patients but often needs to accommodate up to 50 in a night
- Limited capacity has created distrust in the community, as people equate the hospital's appearance with quality of care
- Ayala emphasizes that this is a priority project for her and requests more information on its place in the priority list
Diana Ayala
1:09:41
You know, and the idea that this is an emergency room that has the capacity to see just 25 patients, but then they have, you know, can have up to 50 in a night and not have places to put them because there just isn't anywhere.
1:09:54
And the fact that that also has created kind of a level of distrust from the community, right, because they equate the way that the hospital looks with the quality of care that they're gonna receive and that's unfortunate because what I see is that by comparison when you go to Mount Sinai Hospital which is a private hospital in the emergency room we have four or five rows of patients because they're overpopulated and they've already extended like three times and can't keep up with the demand, but we could we could really be, you know, moving those patients over to met if we had the capacity to do that.
1:10:30
So this is like a really, you know, it's a priority project for me and I just if if you could kindly figure out where on the, you know, on the list because you may not put a number on it, but when I'm looking at a list, I'm I'm assuming that the first few are the priority.
1:10:44
Okay.
1:10:45
And so