ALBANY, N.Y. (WENY) -- The New York State Department of Health has identified 40 hospitals that have met the state’s threshold for “high risk regions" or low capacity facilities, according to new figures released Saturday. That is an increase in 19 hospitals since last check on Jan. 4. These hospitals now mush stop non-essential and non-urgent elective procedures for a minimum of two weeks.

No medical facilities in the central Southern Tier of New York were identified in the report, but the closest hospitals identified are the Guthrie Cortland Medical Center and the Olean General Hospital.

"We will use every available tool to help ensure that hospitals can manage the COVID-19 winter surge," said Acting State Health Commissioner Dr. Mary T. Bassett. "We cannot return to the early months of the pandemic when hospitals were overwhelmed."  

Department of Health officials have assessed hospital capacity across the state weekly since Dec. 13, after New York Governor Hochul signed an executive order in November, allowing the Department of Health to order hospitals to stop performing in-hospital elective surgery? if the state identifies the facilities to be in high risk areas, or have a strained and limited bed capacity.

According to the release by the DoH, criteria that the organization uses to identify high-risk regions includes, "low current regional bed capacity with 90 percent or more beds occupied based on the previous 7-day average; or 85-90% occupancy rate based on the previous 7-day average and a new COVID-19 hospital admission rate for the region (previous 7-day average per 100,000 population) greater than 4 percent."

Continue reading below for a full list of hospitals identified in the report.

Mohawk Valley Region:

Faxton-St Luke’s Healthcare St Luke’s Division  

Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital    

St. Mary's Healthcare    

A.O. Fox Memorial Hospital    

Cobleskill Regional Hospital    

Little Falls Hospital    

Nathan Littauer Hospital    

Rome Memorial Hospital, Inc    

St Elizabeth Medical Center    

St. Mary's Healthcare - Amsterdam Memorial Campus
    

Finger Lakes Region:    

F.F. Thompson Hospital    

Geneva General Hospital    

Newark-Wayne Community Hospital    

Rochester General Hospital    

The Unity Hospital of Rochester    

United Memorial Medical Center North Street Campus    

Clifton Springs Hospital and Clinic    

Highland Hospital    

Medina Memorial Hospital    

Nicholas H. Noyes Memorial Hospital    

Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hospital of Yates County Inc    

Strong Memorial Hospital    

Wyoming County Community Hospital    

     

Central New York Region:    

Crouse Hospital    

Oneida Health Hospital    

Oswego Hospital    

St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center    

University Hospital SUNY Health Science Center    

UPSTATE University Hospital at Community General    

Auburn Community Hospital    

Community Memorial Hospital Inc    

Guthrie Cortland Medical Center    

   

Impacted Hospitals in Other Regions:  

Brooks-TLC Hospital System, Inc.    

Mount St Mary’s Hospital and Health Center    

Erie County Medical Center    

Mercy Hospital of Buffalo     

Sisters of Charity Hospital    

The University of Vermont Health Network - Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital     

Bertrand Chaffee Hospital    

Olean General Hospital