What you should know:
1. The hospital set up portable tents and trailers outside to treat COVID-19 patients and prevent those patients from entering the hospital.
2. The hospital also converted a portion of its space into a high-level viral containment unit to treat the highest-risk COVID-19 cases.
3. Finally, the hospital is shifting its surgical cases to a local surgery center to continue to increase internal capacity.
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