Hurricane Sandy: How Did We Do? Assessing a Manhattan Hospital’s Response

Frontiers in Public Health

Christina Ngoc Tram Tran¹ 

关键词: Hurricane Sandy;    Beth Israel Medical Center;    Mount Sinai Beth Israel;    hurricanes;    disaster preparedness;    emergency department;    hurricane;    visiting clinicians;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpubh.2014.00090

学科分类：卫生学

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Hurricane Sandy, the largest, most deadly, and second costliest Atlantic storm recorded in history, hit New York City the night of October 29, 2012 (1). The lights blacked out and a silence fell across the usually bustling streets of downtown Manhattan. Sandy had resulted in widespread flooding of the streets, major tunnels, and subway systems in lower Manhattan and left some 2.5 million residents in New Jersey and 2.3 million residents in New York without electricity (2). Flooding and generator failures led to the unprecedented evacuation and closure of all hospitals in the lower half of Manhattan except for Beth Israel Medical Center (3). As patients and ambulances arrived at the already busy emergency department (ED), Beth Israel was forced to face a new and unexpected challenge.

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