I have an idea. Stop elective surgeries. Then you can turn your pre op and PACU areas into ICUs. You can also ship your overflow pts to colorado We have plenty of room. You can also have your national guard set up field hospitals but they have never been used in places they were set up before. In other words do a little planning and stop pushing the panic buttons
Hospitals are institution that change at a snails pace. Internal bureaucratic inertia and turf wars. Regulatory obstacles. Healthcare organizations have had seven months to ramp up and get their bed allocation, skill mix and material management in order. I doubt many facilities have changed their ways except to learn how to upgrade their coding practices to claim federal covid funding.