>> commissioner guermo. >> thank you, and i want to add my thanks and acknowledgement to dr. chow in terms of how the department is handling this. >> commissioner, hold on. >> appreciate the example. dr. erlich, i'm not sure if this is a question for you or for the team, but with regard to the coordination, through the hospital council, are you also able to coordinate the beds that supplies the workforce? >> you just went mute. >> who will make that decision for the supply beds and workforces to happen? >> right. so generally, what we're doing is that each hospital is doing the maximum it can to try to create capacity within its own walls. so, for example, canceling elective surgeries creates a capacity that we can use for covid-positive patients. and so we're all informing one another and talking about the measures that we're taking, which are pretty similar. with respect to that centralized resource at st. francis, i think the idea is this three-pronged approached that i described, whereby st. francis is looking at what it's going to cost to provide the basic supplies and t

>> commissioner guermo. >> thank you, and i want to add my thanks and acknowledgement to dr. chow in terms of how the department is handling this. >> commissioner, hold on. >> appreciate the example. dr. erlich, i'm not sure if this is a question for you or for the team, but with regard to the coordination, through the hospital council, are you also able to coordinate the beds that supplies the workforce? >> you just went mute. >> who will make that decision for the supply beds and workforces to happen? >> right. so generally, what we're doing is that each hospital is doing the maximum it can to try to create capacity within its own walls. so, for example, canceling elective surgeries creates a capacity that we can use for covid-positive patients. and so we're all informing one another and talking about the measures that we're taking, which are pretty similar. with respect to that centralized resource at st. francis, i think the idea is this three-pronged approached that i described, whereby st. francis is looking at what it's going to cost to provide the basic supplies and t

>> commissioner guermo. >> thank you, and i want to add my thanks and acknowledgement to dr. chow in terms of how the department is handling this. >> commissioner, hold on. >> appreciate the example. dr. erlich, i'm not sure if this is a question for you or for the team, but with regard to the coordination, through the hospital council, are you also able to coordinate the beds that supplies the workforce? >> you just went mute. >> who will make that decision for the supply beds and workforces to happen? >> right. so generally, what we're doing is that each hospital is doing the maximum it can to try to create capacity within its own walls. so, for example, canceling elective surgeries creates a capacity that we can use for covid-positive patients. and so we're all informing one another and talking about the measures that we're taking, which are pretty similar. with respect to that centralized resource at st. francis, i think the idea is this three-pronged approached that i described, whereby st. francis is looking at what it's going to cost to provide the basic supplies and t

>> commissioner guermo. >> thank you, and i want to add my thanks and acknowledgement to dr. chow in terms of how the department is handling this. >> commissioner, hold on. >> appreciate the example. dr. erlich, i'm not sure if this is a question for you or for the team, but with regard to the coordination, through the hospital council, are you also able to coordinate the beds that supplies the workforce? >> you just went mute. >> who will make that decision for the supply beds and workforces to happen? >> right. so generally, what we're doing is that each hospital is doing the maximum it can to try to create capacity within its own walls. so, for example, canceling elective surgeries creates a capacity that we can use for covid-positive patients. and so we're all informing one another and talking about the measures that we're taking, which are pretty similar. with respect to that centralized resource at st. francis, i think the idea is this three-pronged approached that i described, whereby st. francis is looking at what it's going to cost to provide the basic supplies and t

>> commissioner guermo. >> thank you, and i want to add my thanks and acknowledgement to dr. chow in terms of how the department is handling this. >> commissioner, hold on. >> appreciate the example. dr. erlich, i'm not sure if this is a question for you or for the team, but with regard to the coordination, through the hospital council, are you also able to coordinate the beds that supplies the workforce? >> you just went mute. >> who will make that decision for the supply beds and workforces to happen? >> right. so generally, what we're doing is that each hospital is doing the maximum it can to try to create capacity within its own walls. so, for example, canceling elective surgeries creates a capacity that we can use for covid-positive patients. and so we're all informing one another and talking about the measures that we're taking, which are pretty similar. with respect to that centralized resource at st. francis, i think the idea is this three-pronged approached that i described, whereby st. francis is looking at what it's going to cost to provide the basic supplies and t