Nora Mishanec is reporting for Columbia-Greene Media state officials confirmed April 1, the Greenport campus of Columbia-Greene Community College is on the list of locations in New York that could be converted into a temporary field hospital for the treatment of coronavirus patients. With the rapid increase of COVID-19 cases in New York City and Westchester County, medical care facilities in Columbia and Greene counties may be called upon to host overflow patients from downstate. “C-GCC was one of the first organizations to contact us to offer their large areas,” Columbia County Director of Emergency Management David Harrison Jr. said. “We passed that information on to New York state.” Columbia-Greene Director of Marketing and Communications Jaclyn Stevenson said the college volunteered the space, but only for convalescing patients, those who are not actively ill, but are quarantined. Columbia Memorial Health may soon receive COVID-19 patients transferred from downstate, Albany Medical Center said in a statement this week. The facility has received rented hospital beds and ventilators in an effort to double its capacity in an effort to meet Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s goal of increasing the state’s hospital capacity by 100 percent. Columbia Memorial is on track to meet that goal, according to hospital officials. Read the full story at HudsonValley360 [dot] com.