BALTIMORE, Maryland (AP) – A historic Baltimore hotel has been remodeled amid the coronavirus pandemic, which serves as a means of isolation for others with COVID-19.
Since May, more than six hundred people have walked through the doors of the Lord Baltimore hotel, the Baltimore Sun reported. References to the city’s classification, respite, and isolation center come from hospitals, homeless shelters, and rehabilitation centers. people who are not enough to require hospitalization but who cannot isolate themselves at home.
The initiative is a partnership between Baltimore and the University of Maryland Medical System and is funded with $103 million the city won with the federal coronavirus relief bill. As dollars expire in December, city officials plan to request a budget from the Federal Emergency Administration Agency to keep it open longer, the newspaper reported.
Leon Love, a 68-year-old Baltimore resident, stayed there last month and says the attention he gained there helped him make a full recovery.
The new company also helped the hotel recruit 20 of the 60 workers laid off before the pandemic, according to the newspaper.