{"id":55169,"date":"2020-04-29T21:48:01","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T21:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2020\/04\/29\/many-field-hospitals-went-largely-unused-will-be-shut-down\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T09:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T09:45:10","slug":"many-field-hospitals-went-largely-unused-will-be-shut-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/coronavirus\/2020\/04\/29\/many-field-hospitals-went-largely-unused-will-be-shut-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Many field hospitals went largely unused, will be shut down"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NEW YORK \u2014 Gleaming new tent hospitals sit empty on two suburban New York college campuses, never having treated a single coronavirus patient. Convention centers that were turned into temporary hospitals in other cities went mostly unused. And<a href=\"https:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/news\/your-navy\/2020\/04\/21\/navy-hospital-ship-sent-to-nyc-for-outbreak-no-longer-needed-says-cuomo\/\" target=_blank> a Navy hospital ship<\/a> that offered help in Manhattan is soon to depart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When virus infections slowed down or fell short of worst-case predictions, the globe was left dotted with dozens of barely used or unused field hospitals. Some public officials say that\u2019s a good problem to have \u2014 despite spending potentially billions of dollars to erect the care centers \u2014 because it\u2019s a sign the deadly disease was not nearly as cataclysmic as it might have been.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many of the facilities will now be kept on standby for a possible second wave of infections. Some could even be repurposed as testing sites or recovery centers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt will count as a huge success for the whole country if we never have to use them,\u201d said Simon Stevens, the chief executive of the National Health Service in England, where sparsely used field hospitals have been criticized as costly, unnecessary \u201cwhite elephants.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBut with further waves of coronavirus possible, it is important that we have these extra facilities in place and treating patients,\u201d Stevens said.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/your-navy\/2020\/04\/26\/navy-hospital-ship-comfort-offloads-few-remaining-patients-before-nyc-exit\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/49726854558_f6192aa0e7_k.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Navy hospital ship Comfort offloads few remaining patients before NYC exit<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">As of Saturday, the 1,000-bed hospital ship had treated just 182 patients.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Italy and Spain, field hospitals were seen as crucial to relieving strain on emergency rooms as the disease exploded in March. Those countries rank behind only the United States for the largest number of infections and deaths, according to a Johns Hopkins University tally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spain built at least 16 field hospitals, ranging from a few beds under tents to one with more than 5,000 beds at Madrid\u2019s big convention center. That facility has treated more than 4,000 patients, accounting for 10% of the total infected population in the disease-ravaged capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP20120669888961.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"Spain field hospital, coronavirus\" class=\"wp-image-93292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP20120669888961.jpg.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP20120669888961.jpg.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP20120669888961.jpg.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP20120669888961.jpg.jpg?resize=1024,682 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP20120669888961.jpg.jpg?resize=1536,1024 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">In this March 30, 2020, file photo, Spanish Army soldiers mount a tent to be used by hospital patients during the coronavirus outbreak in Madrid. (Bernat Armangue\/AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the crisis eases and permanent hospitals are able to better manage the load, some of Spain\u2019s field hospitals are scaling back or shutting down. The Madrid facility halved its capacity and could close in two weeks if infection rates hold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spanish Health Minister Salvador Illa said the field hospitals have been important and in some cases \u201cessential.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For all the successes, there have also been missteps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Milan, in Italy\u2019s hardest-hit region, a field hospital funded with 21 million euro ($23 million) in private donations came too late and was built too far from the city center to be much help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 200-bed hospital, put up in less than two weeks at a conference center on the outskirts of town, opened to great fanfare on March 31, but by then pressure on the region\u2019s intensive care units was already starting to fall. It has treated only a few dozen patients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Italy\u2019s national civil protection agency opposed the plan from the start, arguing it could never equip the facility with ventilators or personnel in time. But the regional governor, a member of a rival political party, forged ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe had to &#8230; prepare a dam in case the epidemic overcame the embankment,\u201d Lombardy Governor Attilio Fontana told Italian all-news station Radio 24.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/your-military\/2020\/03\/27\/the-army-corps-of-engineers-has-two-or-three-weeks-to-get-thousands-of-new-hospital-beds-up-and-running\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/200325-Z-AO733-684.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">The Army Corps of Engineers has two or three weeks to get thousands of new hospital beds up and running<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">New York City will have about 2900 new hospital beds by Monday morning, according to the head of the Army Corps of Engineers.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Berlin, construction and hiring are continuing at a 1,000-bed field hospital dubbed the Corona Center. The project has advanced despite a glut of available hospital beds in the German capital, leading to questions about its usefulness and the 90 million euros ($97.8 million) it\u2019s cost so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In New York, the hardest-hit state in the U.S. with nearly 300,000 cases and more than 18,000 deaths, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has used the mantra \u201cplan for the worst, hope for the best\u201d to defend his push for field hospitals that have, so far, gone largely unused.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Looking at projections in mid-March that the state would need to double hospital capacity to 110,000 beds by the end of April, Cuomo asked the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to build at least four field hospitals and the Navy to deploy the Navy\u2019s Comfort hospital ship to Manhattan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the same time, hospitals were discharging patients to free up beds and adding new ones, and the public was starting to embrace social-distancing measures to stem the spread of infection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2047\" height=\"1214\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/49738957256_7b1ad71b78_k.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City\" class=\"wp-image-56169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/49738957256_7b1ad71b78_k.jpg.jpg 2047w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/49738957256_7b1ad71b78_k.jpg.jpg?resize=300,178 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/49738957256_7b1ad71b78_k.jpg.jpg?resize=768,455 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/49738957256_7b1ad71b78_k.jpg.jpg?resize=1024,607 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/49738957256_7b1ad71b78_k.jpg.jpg?resize=1536,911 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2047px) 100vw, 2047px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Military members begin adding lamps to the Patient Care Units (PCU) for Phase II at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City, April 2, 2020.  (Maj. Patrick Cordova\/Air National Guard)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the number of disease-related hospitalizations cresting far below forecasts, at 18,825 on April 12, just one of the Army Corps-built temporary facilities opened, at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. It will close Friday after treating little more than 1,000 patients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The three other field hospitals that Cuomo requested were completed and mothballed for possible future use, including ones on the campuses of Stony Brook University and the State University of New York College at Old Westbury on Long Island. Plans for four other field hospitals were scrapped, and the Comfort is set to leave on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army Corps of Engineers paid construction firms $136 million to build the Stony Brook facility and $116.5 million to build the one on the Old Westbury campus, according to federal contracting data. It gave out at least $100 million in contracts for since-canceled hospitals at a horse racing track and a city park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The disparity between Cuomo\u2019s worst-case-scenario planning and what actually happened caught the attention of one critic, President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe built you thousands of hospital beds that you didn\u2019t need or use,\u201d he tweeted to his gubernatorial nemesis on April 17.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/49758126981_ad19e550b2_k.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"Atlantic City Convention Center\" class=\"wp-image-93297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/49758126981_ad19e550b2_k.jpg.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/49758126981_ad19e550b2_k.jpg.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/49758126981_ad19e550b2_k.jpg.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/49758126981_ad19e550b2_k.jpg.jpg?resize=1024,683 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/49758126981_ad19e550b2_k.jpg.jpg?resize=1536,1024 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">New Jersey Air National Guard airmen set up equipment during the buildup of a Field Medical Station at the Atlantic City Convention Center in Atlantic City, N.J., April 9, 2020. (Master Sgt. Matt Hecht\/Air National Guard)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Similar scenarios have played out across the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chicago pared back plans for a 3,000-bed temporary hospital at McCormick Place, the nation\u2019s largest convention center, as infection numbers decreased. Opened April 3 instead with 500 beds, the $64 million facility treated just 12 people as of last week, with six of them being released.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A 1,000-bed facility at Detroit\u2019s big convention center has treated about three-dozen people, with 16 receiving care there as of Tuesday. Mayor Mike Duggan called the facility\u2019s limited usage a \u201csign of great success\u201d and said it would soon shut down.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/news\/your-army\/2020\/04\/09\/army-field-hospital-to-leave-seattle-days-after-standing-up\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6154293.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Army field hospital to leave Seattle days after standing up<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The hospital commander said her team was planning to accept patients this week.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Philadelphia plans to close its temporary hospital in about two weeks. Open since April 20, it\u2019s taken it just a handful of patients as they recover from coronavirus. New Jersey\u2019s four Army Corps-built field hospitals, with a total of 1,000 beds, have treated 346 patients as of Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, in New Orleans, the convention center that provided refuge to survivors of Hurricane Katrina 15 years ago, is seeing about 100 coronavirus patients at any given time as a field hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said he does not have any immediate plans to close the facility, because modeling shows the possibility of an uptick in virus cases in the future. He said the city has no need for the convention space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cQuite frankly, we\u2019re not going to have conventions coming to New Orleans in the immediate future,\u201d Edwards said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>Associated Press writers Nicole Winfield in Rome; Sylvie Corbet and Angela Charlton in Paris; Joseph Wilson in Madrid; Frank Jordans in Berlin; Pan Pylas in London; Dusan Stojanovic in Belgrade, Serbia; Don Thompson in Sacramento, California; Michael Catalini in Trenton, New Jersey; Claudia Lauer in Philadelphia; Ed White in Detroit; John O\u2019Connor in Springfield, Illinois; David Eggert in Lansing, Michigan; James LaPorta in Delray Beach, Florida; and Melinda Deslatte in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of the facilities will now be kept on standby for a possible second wave of infections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":93289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":61,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[61,101,23,89,12,26,62],"tags":[],"coauthors":[2943],"class_list":["post-55169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-daily-news-roundup","category-home","category-middle-column","category-news","category-newsletters","category-pentagon-congress"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"2FO4326BP5F43LUSKKQKVYTQXM","arc_canonical_url":"\/news\/coronavirus\/2020\/04\/29\/many-field-hospitals-went-largely-unused-will-be-shut-down\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Many field hospitals went largely unused, will be shut down - Navy Times<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Many of the facilities will now be kept on standby for a possible second wave of infections.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/coronavirus\/2020\/04\/29\/many-field-hospitals-went-largely-unused-will-be-shut-down\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Many field hospitals went largely unused, will be shut down\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Many of the facilities will now be kept on standby for a possible second wave of infections.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/coronavirus\/2020\/04\/29\/many-field-hospitals-went-largely-unused-will-be-shut-down\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Navy Times\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-04-29T21:48:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-08-08T09:45:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Michael R. 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