Hospitals addressing problems from flooding one year after Sandy

Health and hospital officials have made good progress in defining the risks, but less headway in actually implementing solutions

By Healthcare Facilities Today


All of the city-run hospitals are fully operational, but there are still vulnerabilities that need to be addressed, according to an article on the NY1.com website.

Nearly a year after Hurricane Sandy hit, all of the city-run hospitals are fully operational, but there are still vulnerabilities that need to be addressed, according to an article on the NY1.com website. 

Bellevue Hospital, NYU Langone Medical Center, Manhattan Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Coney Island Hospital were forced to evacuate patients that night.

Coney Island Hospital is still not at 100 percent. The MRI and CAT scan services are still located outside in mobile units.

"Coney Island Hospital sustained tremendous damage, not only to systems in the basement, but to the first floor of the hospital," New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation President Alan Aviles, said. "That's where they required us to rebuild significant parts."

That includes the emergency department, which is up and running, but the hospital is still waiting for state approval to reopen the psychiatric, emergency and pediatric inpatient units. Approval is expected this month..

The hospital remains vulnerable.

"A similar storm would wipe out the emergency department, that entire first floor again, so we have temporary barriers in place to protect proportions of that campus," Aviles said. But we need a bigger solution there. Probably the elevation of the entire emergency room department, essentially the building of a new building."

Read the article.

 

 

 



November 4, 2013


Topic Area: Maintenance and Operations


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