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Newsday has updated us on the state of hospitals in Long Island, where the bulk of Hurricane Irene's power was felt in the New York area this weekend. After much scrambling, most hospitals are already reopening and readmitting transferred patients.
Three hospitals were reported to have evacuated their patients. Only Long Beach Medical Center was still waiting for Nassau's go ahead to readmit 234 patients on Sunday. They were scheduled to open the emergency department and ICU by late Sunday. Both Southside Hospital in Bay Shore, which transferred 250 patients, and Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center in West Islip, which transferred 355 patients, were undamaged and gradually reopened their departments by, at latest, Tuesday.
Some hospitals did sustain a little damage. North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset and Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow had to deal with minor flooding. Plainview Hospital lost the use of some imaging equipment and sent their patients to Syosset Hospital for scans. Peconic Bay Medical Center in Riverhead experienced, "some major leaks," but were able to isolate those locations.
Almost half of hospitals on Long Island had to run on backup power, including North Shore-LIJ's Glen Cove, Plainview, Huntington and Southside hospitals and three Catholic Health Services hospitals, St. Francis in Roslyn, St. Catherine of Siena in Smithtown and St. Charles in Port Jefferson. None reported any undue burden on their services, however.
Still other hospitals rode the storm out. Among these, South Nassau Communities Hospital in Oceanside, and Brookhaven, Stony Brook, Winthrop and Mather hospitals reported minimal damage.
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