A disabled medical helicopter was lifted from the roof of the University of New Mexico Hospital (UNMH) Saturday, four days after it crashed while attempting to take off.
During the removal, the hospital switched to internal power at the university’s utilities center. UNMH and other critical facilities on campus relied on generator back-up, according to an article on the University of New Mexico website.
Clinical services at the hospital continued uninterrupted, while the switchover caused some intermittent power outages on main campus, the article said.
“We spent all day Friday planning for how to carefully make the power switch so there would be minimal impact to the hospital and to the campus,” Mary Vosevich, UNM's physical plant director, said in the article. “We had contingency plans in place and implemented them with more than 40 physical plant employees working to make sure everything went as smoothly as possible.”
Eighteen patients on sections of UNMH's fifth and sixth floors directly beneath the helipad were moved to other areas of the hospital.
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