While emergency-room traffic Sunday remained on the slower side in Pittsburgh-area hospitals, hundreds of doctors and nurses were preparing to spend the night in these facilities to ensure the injured and ailing had access to health care in the midst of record-breaking snowfall.
It’s difficult to pinpoint how many physicians and health care workers were set to sleep Sunday night in Allegheny Health Network hospitals — but some facilities were prepared to house up to 40 staffers, Dr. Ezz-Eldin “Dean” Moukamal, the health care system’s chief quality officer, told TribLive.
UPMC estimated that hundreds of staffers were staying overnight in their hospitals.
Neither health care network was reporting service problems or widespread cancellations and closures, as of 6 p.m. Sunday…