A grassy meadow in New York's Central Park normally occupied by sunbathers and picnickers is now an emergency field hospital as officials scramble to support a hospital system getting overwhelmed by coronavirus.The 68-bed field hospital in the park's East Meadow along the Upper East Side is designed as a respiratory care unit.Samaritan's Purse, a Christian humanitarian aid organization, set up the tents in cooperation with FEMA, state officials and local hospital authorities, the organization said.Mayor Bill de Blasio said the tent hospital is expected to be operational by Tuesday.Though small, the field hospital is an example of how New York is using every possible method to expand its capacity to treat coronavirus patients.The Army Corps of Engineers transformed Manhattan's Javits Convention Center into a makeshift 1,000-bed field hospital, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo set a goal of building a 1,000-plus patient temporary hospital in each New York City borough as well as in Westchester, Rockland, Nassau and Suffolk counties.U.S. Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort also docked in New York City harbor Monday to aid hospitals overwhelmed treating patients with coronavirus.Patients who don't have the virus will be treated on the ship.“The Comfort brings 1,000 much-needed hospital beds & 1,200 personnel to New York,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo tweeted Monday morning.More than 1,000 people have died of coronavirus in New York, the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, as of Monday morning, a state official told CNN.And Cuomo has warned that the numbers of coronavirus patients, hospitalizations and deaths will continue to rise until they reach an expected peak in two to three weeks.Cuomo's call for "all hands on deck" in the state has also turned out more medical staff and a surge in needed medical supplies.The city has received all of the 2,500 ventilators promised by the federal government. They are distributing the ventilators along with personal protective equipment including 8,918,000 face masks, 179,328 face shields, 1,570,300 surgical gloves and 476,565 N95 masks."There is not enough of anything," an attending physician in the anesthesiology department of a Long Island hospital told CNN. "There are just so many patients who are so sick it seems impossible to keep up with the demand."For medical professionals on the front lines, many of whom are reusing single-use equipment, the supplies are the best line of defense against contracting the virus themselves, spreading it to patients and being unable to continue providing care.Staff moved and a hospital in Central ParkCuomo has emphasized a two-pronged solution to the coronavirus outbreak: increase the ability to care for those who get sick and cut down on the spread of new cases.NYC's Emergency Rooms are serving twice as many patients as usual and their ICUs are three times as large as usual, Dr. Mitchell Katz, CEO of NYC Health + Hospitals said Sunday.In response, 500 contract nurses were added to the NYC Health + Hospitals system this week and another 500 are expected next week, Mayor de Blasio said Sunday.And Queen's Elmhurst Hospital, which de Blasio said is among the hardest hit in the city, has received 169 clinicians to help in its fight against the virus. The city will continue to move personnel to help every hospital that needs it during this pandemic, de Blasio said.At Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center, where CNN gained access Sunday, the ICU was working at capacity, patient beds lined the hallways of the emergency department and the morgue was full."I can say that every corner every part of the hallway, every room, every space has been filled up to capacity with our patients," Dr. Arabia Mollette said.