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Hospital Evacuations for Future Hurricanes - NYTimes.com Page 1 of 2 CLE000062 Submitted November 14, 2012 HOME PAGE TODAY'S PAPER VIDEO MOST POPULAR U.S. Edition Subscribe:Digital / Home Delivery Log In Register Now Help Search Opinion WORLD U.S. N.Y. / REGION BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY SCIENCE HEALTH SPORTS OPINION ARTS STYLE TRAVEL JOBS REAL ESTATE AUTOS Advertise on NYTimes.com EDITORIAL Hospital Evacuations for Future Storms Log in to see what your friends are sharing on nytimes.com.
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One of the big lessons of Hurricane Sandy is that New Yorks FACEBOOK Whats Popular Now hospitals are not as well prepared as they need to be. Both the TWITTER Hope and The Real Loser:
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nearby NYU Langone Medical Center, a leading private institution, E-MAIL had become flooded and lost their primary power when the storm hit on Monday night. SHARE PRINT Advertisement The hospitals, on Manhattans East Related Side, started transferring patients out, REPRINTS At Bellevue, a Desperate Fight to but soon they lost their backup Ensure the Patients Safety (November 2, 2012) generators as well. That required the emergency evacuation of hundreds Patients Evacuated From City Medical Center After Power Failure more patients even as ambulances and (October 30, 2012) paramedics were trying to handle emergencies everywhere in the city.
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@andyrNYT. institution, because they believed it was safer to leave the patients in the hospitals than to move them without clear evidence that evacuation was necessary. The conditions, however, turned out to be far MOST E-MAILED MOST VIEWED worse than expected. An unusually high storm surge knocked out power in that part of Manhattan, and water flooding into the hospital basements disabled the hospitals backup 1. THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Hope and Change: Part 2 generators.
City officials and the Health and Hospitals Corporation, which runs the public hospitals, 2. DAVID BROOKS The Heart Grows Smarter say that the information available 48 hours5.555556e-4 days <br />0.0133 hours <br />7.936508e-5 weeks <br />1.8264e-5 months <br /> before the storms projected landfall, then expected to be late Sunday, suggested the hospitals would be safe because the wind was
- 3. WELL projected to slow. They also say they followed the citys coastal storm plan, which spells out Can Exercise Protect the Brain From Fatty steps to take before a hurricane. Foods?
- 4. As Dengue Fever Sweeps India, a Slow In light of this disaster, hospital administrators clearly need to re-examine their evacuation Response Stirs Experts Fears planning and re-assess how decisions were made before the storm. Hospitals also will need to bolster their defenses. The fuel pumps in the basement of Bellevue, which shorted out
- 5. EDITORIAL and were unable to feed fuel to the backup generators on the 13th floor, may have to be President Obamas Success placed on a higher floor. The elevator cars, which were rendered unusable when the
- 6. OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR elevator shafts flooded, may have to be redesigned. We Need a Little Fear New York institutions will require a lot more protection to survive powerful storms, which
- 7. CAMPAIGN STOPS may well get worse from the effects of global warming. All the patients were safely E-Day evacuated this time. Next time, the result may not be so fortunate.
- 8. OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR The Real Loser: Truth http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/07/opinion/hospital-evacuations-for-future-storms.html?... 11/7/2012
Hospital Evacuations for Future Hurricanes - NYTimes.com Page 2 of 2 A version of this editorial appeared in print on November 7, 2012, on page A26 of the New York edition with the headline:
Hospital Evacuations for Future Storms.
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