East Coast healthcare facilities prepared for storm

Hospitals prepared facilities for historic blizzard


East Coast healthcare facilities prepared as massive blizzard approached, according to an article on the Modern Healthcare website.

MedStar Health, a major provider in the Washington D.C. area ordered extra supplies and arranged for staff accommodations. The system has closed some of its non-acute facilities, including urgent-care centers and physician practices.

Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City also stocked up on supplies and made overnight accommodations for staff, said the facility's director of emergency management.

In Baltimore, where up to 30 inches of snow had been predicted. Johns Hopkins Hospital had extra supplies of food and water for patients and is making sure the streets and sidewalks on its five-block campus are plowed.

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January 26, 2016


Topic Area: Industry News


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