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Pre-Event Hospital Unit Crosswalk

April 13, 2017
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This crosswalk is designed to facilitate bed matching across hospitals during emergency incidents that necessitate large-scale patient evacuation. All hospitals in New York State are asked to crosswalk the existing units within their facility to these five standardized bed categories.

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