As cases of COVID-19 increase in the United States, communities increasingly need beds for field hospitals, makeshift quarantine centers and to house health care professionals. Responding to the need, Cloudbeds, a hotel industry software provider, created #hospitalityhelps, an initiative to connect hotel owners and operators with health care providers in need. Hospitality professionals provide their information on the Hospitality Helps dedicated website, allowing government and health care agencies to find available beds in the area.

“With each passing hour, we face an ever more acute shortage of available beds for the sick, and for health professionals who are fighting coronavirus. At the same time, we are seeing many lodging providers reducing occupancy or sitting empty altogether,” said Adam Harris, CEO, Cloudbeds. “The hotel industry has always been about people first and foremost. #Hospitalityhelps is connecting our hotel customers and industry partners with government and healthcare agencies to help people who need it most — by making more beds available. This is a time when all of us must take action to do what we can to avoid reaching an unprecedented breaking point in our health care system. It doesn’t make sense that patients in need of beds should be without them, when there are hundreds of beds available around the corner.”

“We have a team of people working around the clock to help alleviate the strain by mobilizing the hospitality community. As communities continue to act urgently to prepare, we hope that leaders in hospitality and other industries will step forward to support them,” added Richard Castle, president and COO, Cloudbeds.