First Look. Boston Hope is opening today as our surge is expected. It’s MA field hospital and #covid shelter @MassConvention and preparing for up to 1000 patients. I was invited this am so posting pics and explanations about how these get built and work.
Army support arriving 1/
Army support arriving 1/
Overheard: “I have a new appreciation for God. He took six days. This took us eight.”
The facility has familiar names to differentiate areas. The state began this effort last Wed. It’s an all hands mission. Individual bed cubicles are ready. 2/
The facility has familiar names to differentiate areas. The state began this effort last Wed. It’s an all hands mission. Individual bed cubicles are ready. 2/
Infection control and patient clinical priority are the two main missions as they determine how to triage the expected patients. First 50 patients arriving now. 3/
OH: “The masks arrived but we have no idea where the hell they are in this building.” This is a logistics game and nothing matters until PPE gets to frontline workers. Some of the personnel for day one. 4/
Two 85 person medical teams arriving from military. Guys from Ft. Hood who were helping at Javits as it stabilized and now here to assist. Takes about 4 days for things to start running smoothly. 5/
This is the incident command center. They don’t normally look this spaced out. This is where logistics are run. The famous WebEOC is our data management tracking system. And there is @Cnn @JohnKingCNN on screen. #logistics 6/
Say hi to Jack Hammond, formerly a BG Army and Guard, who is now site incident commander for Boston Hope, pulling this together. He used to work for me when he was in National Guard. Good people. Big hearts. No drama. They are ready. This is how it is done. 7/7
