The hospital will NOT be able to function anywhere near as well as it has in the past. It will take more people to handle the same number of patients and do it much less efficiently than in the past. Patients will wait longer to see clinicians at all levels. All this will cause a reduction in the level of care that patients will receive. These problems are not irreparable.
Solutions are available, workarounds can be put into place, and changes can be made.
It will take some time and that frame can not be measured from this distance. We will not know that these services have been impacted unless we actually use them and even then, all we would see would be frustrated nurses trying to cope with more work in less time. There will be no massive headlines, no reporters on the scene, just health care that is not as good as it was. There is no way to know just as there is no way to know if there will be a dial tone on the handset, or light in the fixture. For most, there will be no problem.