Hospitals seeing continued flow of patients from outside the area hit hard by hurricane

Northeast Florida hospitals say their facilities withstood the storm and now are serving more patients


Hospital officials in Northeast Florida say their facilities withstood the storm and now are serving more patients from other hit hard areas, according to an article on the Washington County News/Holmes County Times-Advertiser website.

Despite temporarily losing power and gas during the storm, Northwest Florida Community Hospital was quickly restored and has since been running over capacity.

The hospital, which has 34 nursing home beds and 25 beds for acute care, has converted some of the rooms that were once private to semi-private and utilized its recovery room for additional space to give medical attention to the 65-66 patients it now sees daily.

And although phone lines were down, Doctors Memorial Hospital operated without interruptions during the storm and ran on a generator from the day the storm hit. Almost immediately, patients began to arrive from other areas.

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October 30, 2018


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