Definitions for surge capacity
surge ca·pac·i·ty

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1. surge capacity

   A medical surge occurs when "patient volumes challenge or exceed a hospital's servicing capacity"—often but not always tied to high volume of patients in a hospital's emergency room. Medical surges can occur after a mass casualty incident. In a poll by the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) in May 2018, 93% of doctors said their US emergency rooms were not fully prepared for medical surges. 6% said their emergency departments were fully prepared.

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1. Surge Capacity

   A health care system's ability to rapidly mobilize to meet an increased demand, to rapidly expand beyond normal services levels to meet the increased demand in the event of large-scale DISASTERS or public health emergencies.

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of surge capacity in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of surge capacity in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of surge capacity in a Sentence

1. Will Humble:

   What I'd be focusing right now on is sounding the alarm to our hospital systems to get ready, because no matter what Will Humble do at this point, given where we are at the increase in cases, the exponential growth, taking into consideration the incubation period for this virus, we're going to go into surge capacity mode by the Fourth of July.

2. Brian Kemp:

   We're a little behind the curve from when our peak is going to be to other states around the country, that is certainly a day I am ready for, but I think today specifically we have been focused on the surge capacity, ramping up testing to do more than we're doing.

3. Nadhim Zahawi:

   Our message to the unions is to say ‘this is not a time to strike, this is a time to try and negotiate’. But in the absence of that, it is important for the government... to have contingency plans in place, we’re looking at the military, we’re looking at a specialist response force... a surge capacity.

4. Yanzhong Huang:

   Both have pursued a' zero-Covid strategy,' both have a large unvaccinated elderly population, and in addition( both) have not invested in public health surge capacity building before the Omicron wave arrived, and in China, you have a large percentage of the general population that have not been exposed to the virus, because of zero-Covid, or that are vaccinated with vaccines that( studies show) are not effective in preventing infection.

5. Tod Wolters:

   Unfortunately, with the JJ cutoff, there's probably going to be about a 20 % reduction to those surges, and we're still working on those specifics, but the site picture from within Europe for the military members and certainly for the dependents, will be significantly different by the end of May than it is today because we will actually triple our surge capacity.

References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surge_Capacity