Temple University’s Liacouras Center, which has been transformed into a makeshift overflow hospital for COVID-19 patients in the final days of their recovery, accepted its first patient today, said Brian Abernathy, the city’s managing director, at the city’s daily virtual press briefing.
The city would not release additional details about the patient.
The center was prepared to accept patients as early as last Thursday, The Temple News reported, though city officials hoped it would never have to be used.
Despite a decrease in reported new cases of COVID-19 and deaths, hospitalizations have increased to 923 in Philadelphia hospitals and 1,737 in the southeast Pennsylvania region, said Health Commissioner Thomas Farley.
The university is offering Temple University Hospital staff and others who are working at the Liacouras Center housing accommodations, President Richard Englert announced in an email to the Temple community last week.
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