Field hospital taken down at St. Francis is a sign of hope and progress

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[matt04]

Part of the hospital surge plan, the 25 bed mobile field hospital would have served as another floor of St. Francis Hospital specifically to treat COVID patients

You can call it a symbol of progress. Tuesday, one of four mobile field hospitals came down outside St. Francis Hospital in Hartford.

March 24th you saw it go up. May 12th you are seeing it come down. Part of Connecticut’s COVID-19 Hospital surge plan, the 25 bed mobile field hospital would have served as another floor of St. Francis Hospital specifically to treat COVID-positive patients. Dr. John Rodis, the President of St. Francis Hospital said, “I thought it was a symbolic gesture going up actually to show that this was a serious issue and it was a real pandemic and that we might need the beds. On the other hand, now that it’s come down I think it’s equally symbolic that we are past the surge that we could have had.”

[matt04]

So the left screamed about overwhelmed hospitals but it appears none of the field hospitals were used and are now coming down.

[Vermont Lt]

My wife was in a room overlooking one of those “hospitals” at St Francis. I stood there watching it go up with her surgeon. He was a military surgeon in Kuwait during the invasion.

We both looked at each other and agreed, it was not a “hospital” they were putting up.

I am glad they never had “patients.”