Governor eases elective outpatient treatment prohibition

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ALBANY – Governor Cuomo announced on Tuesday that elective outpatient treatments can resume in counties and hospitals without significant risk of COVID-19 surge in the near term.

Hospitals will be able to resume performing elective outpatient treatments on Tuesday, April 28 if the hospital capacity is over 25 percent for the county and if there have been fewer than 10 new hospitalizations of COVID-19 patients in the county over the past 10 days.

In the Hudson Valley/Catskills region, Columbia, Greene and Putnam counties will be allowed to resume those treatments.

Restrictions on elective surgery will remain in place in Dutchess, Orange, Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster and Westchester counties.

If a county or hospital that has resumed elective surgery experiences a decrease in hospital capacity below the 25 percent threshold or an increase of 10 or more new hospitalizations of COVID-19 patients, elective surgeries must cease.

Patients must also test negative for the virus before any elective outpatient treatment.

The governor also said the state will take a regional approach to reopening and will make decisions on which counties and regions to open and when to open them based on the facts and data specific to that area.




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