COVID-19: Four Seasons NYC Donates 368 Rooms Free to Hospital Workers, as Field Hospital Comes to Central Park

New York’s East 57St. I.M. Pei-designed Four Seasons New York has joined the fight against COVID-19 in a significant way. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that the 5-star hotel is making 368 rooms available, free of charge, to hundreds of medical workers, doctors and nurses working around the clock treating very ill cornavirus patients. The midtown location is within close range of several city hospitals, including Mt. Sinai, Weill Cornell, New York Presbyterian, NYU Langone, and Bellevue.

Blocks away in Central Park, an emergency field hospital is being built.

Emergency Hospital Being Constructed in Central Park

Workers arrived in Central Park on Sunday morning to begin construction on an emergency hospital connected to Mt. Sinai. NY!.com writes that the 68-bed field hospital will be open for business on Tuesday as a respiratory care unit with ICU capability. Dr. Elliott Tenpenny, the team leader of this field operation, “said highly trained doctors and nurses with experience in infectious diseases will be deployed on a rotating basis.”

The North Carolina based Christian organization Samaritan’s Purse constructed an exact replica of an emergency field hospital that Samaritan’s Purse opened on March 20 in northern Italy. The organization is building three more field hospitals around the city this week.