Unless the hospital is being paid you the Feds to keep the beds open under some sort of emergency protocol.
Who do you think is paying for the beds? Medicare pays about 60-80% of its income. Why do you think elective surgery is such a big deal. That is how they keep the lights on in our not for profit hospital.
And Federal take over is not in any pandemic plan. They don’t reserve rooms. I honestly don’t want to sound like a know it all jerk...but that’s not how this works.
In fact, the state as more authority in these cases than the Fed. The public health system from the feds doesn’t have enough people to do that.
FEMA might get involved. Our state has resources, but not to take over multiple hospitals.