Long Beach Emergency Care Facility temporarily closed due to staff shortages

Long Beach Emergency Care Facility temporarily closed due to staff shortages

FILE - In this April 17, 2020, file photo, a patient is loaded into an ambulance by emergency medical workers outside Cobble Hill Health Center in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Deaths among Medicare patients in nursing homes soared by more than 30% last year, with two devastating surges eight months apart, a government watchdog reported Tuesday in the most complete assessment yet of the ravages of COVID-19 among its most vulnerable victims. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Long Beach Emergency Care Facility operated by Mount Sinai South Nassau temporarily closed yesterday afternoon due to nursing staff shortages occurring as a result of the state vaccine mandate.

Hospital officials say patients from the area in need of emergency care will be directed to the hospital’s main campus in Oceanside.

An ambulance will be stationed around the clock at the closed Long Beach Emergency Department for the duration of the closure.

Officials say the decision to temporarily close the facility was made after all other options were exhausted.

(source News 12) (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)