Roosevelt Island Coler Hospital Patients Test Positive For Coronavirus

We are making more hospital beds available across New York City. From Roosevelt Island to the Javits Center, we're mobilizing to ensure New Yorkers get the care they need during the COVID-19 crisis.
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— City of New York (@nycgov) March 24, 2020

As previously reported:

...the additional Coler beds will be used for lower acuity patients freeing up beds at other hospitals for Coronavirus patients....

Unfortunately, the Coronavirus has struck residents at the NYC Health & Hospitals Corp Coler Hospital on Roosevelt Island:

My older sister ...  just tested positive with coronavirus and she's at the Coler nursing home in Roosevelt Island

Roosevelt Island social media adds:

Feeling complete despair about Coler Hospital

group activities only cancelled today

Multiple people positive for COVID19 on units w/@opendoorsnyc

Nurses refuse to feed residents who are coughing

social distancing impossible with typically 4 to a room

350 beds opening up

— Khadijah (@UpFromTheCracks) March 25, 2020

Can we get more tests of Coler residents to contain and manage the spread before moving in additional low acuity patients from other hospitals? @NYCMayor @NYGovCuomo @opendoorsnyc

— Khadijah (@UpFromTheCracks) March 25, 2020

I asked an informed Coler Insider about conditions at the Hospital who replied:

It is true. There has been a couple of confirmed cases.

It is no worse here than any where else if anything I believe we are better off than most people. Rest assured Coler is doing everything possible to keep the population safe.

As for the part about nurses refusing to feed someone with a cough I find truly ridiculous. If they do they would not be working here. If it is one thing I know about the administration is they have Zero tolerance for abuse.

Do not believe everything that you hear because believe me if I know of any such.abuse I will be the first one to blow the whistle. I speak to staff on a daily basis and they tell me what is going on in here