US Open temporary hospital to be shut down after discharging final COVID-19 patient

The tennis center began receiving patients in the second week of April, as it converted 12 indoor courts into a makeshift COVID-19 ward. However, the tournament announced on Thursday that the final patient being treated had been discharged. Therefore, the space used would be returned to it's original form, after it had been thoroughly sanitized.

“The hospital has officially closed, and we are currently in the shutting-down mode,” USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center Chief Operating Officer Danny Zausner said, according to the US Open’s website. “Crews will be in there for the next three to four weeks disassembling, sanitizing and getting us ready to open up for indoor business when we can.”

Louis Armstrong Stadium, the second-largest stadium, was used to prepare meals that were sent to healthcare workers, patients and school children. Production has since been scaled back to provide food for first-responders, and it's set to end on May 22.

“We were just trying to do our part. We were limited in terms of what our capabilities were, but we were able to provide a safe haven for first responders and, with our food service partners and Restaurant Associates, were able to feed them,” Zausner said. “We felt really good about that. But as we said all along, relative to what people are doing out there day by day, 24 hours a day, we were just scratching the surface.”

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