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RECALLING ALLISON Some Texas Medical Center facilities
were forced to evacuate patients due to extreme flooding
during Tropical Storm Allison in 2001.
(PHOTO: AP/WIDE WORLD)
Memorial Hermann runs, only one had
to be evacuated in a move that was
proactive and precautionary, and its
75 patients were safely transferred to
another Memorial Hermann hospital
a few miles away. For the most part,
hospital staff, visitors, and patients took
advantage of the buildings' safety to ride
out the storm. "A lot of people ended
up staying in our hospitals," said Terry
Scott, system director of engineering
services for Memorial Hermann and
past president of the American Society
of Healthcare Engineering. "At all of
our hospitals we provided free meals to
thousands of employees, visitors, and
patients every meal for free. We set up
dorms where employees could sleep.
Lots of people slept on air mattresses.
We made it for four to five days before
we even walked out the door."
For all the successes seen in Harvey,
LOCALIZED FLOODING Facilities at the Texas Medical Center
were largely unscathed by Hurricane Harvey, as were most of the
roughly 250 hospitals and health care centers in the Houston area.
(PHOTO: AP/WIDE WORLD)
Hurricane Irma-the strongest cyclone
ever recorded in the Atlantic, which
roared through the Caribbean and up
the Florida peninsula just a week and a
half later-showed what can go wrong
for health care facilities during a powerful storm. More than a dozen patients at
a nursing home in Hollywood, Florida,
reportedly died from excessive heat
in the weeks following Irma, after the
hurricane knocked out the facility's
air-conditioning system. David Downey,
chief of Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, said
the threat of power loss for the area's
elderly population is an important and
complicated issue that his department
will consider in its after-action assessment of Irma. (For more on Downey's
experience with Hurricane Irma, see
"Chief Concerns" on page 28.)
While NFPA 99 includes requirements for emergency power, it does
not address air-conditioning, Hart said.
Like most NFPA codes and standards,
though, it tasks those who adopt it with
determining the greatest risks to their
specific communities. In Florida, for
example, one of those risks is heat. The
state has already moved in that direction; less than a week after Irma first
made landfall, Florida Governor Rick
Scott announced new rules requiring
nursing homes and assisted-living
facilities in the state to have generators
capable of keeping air-conditioning on
for at least 96 hours.
ANGELO VERZONI is NFPA Journal staff writer.
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