Cops stood guard outside Brooklyn’s Woodhull Hospital on Sunday after a nasty rain storm knocked out the facility’s power — sending over 100 patients elsewhere.
while officials turned off power and closed the facility for “several days.”
Administrators at NYC Health + Hospitals/Woodhull were reportedly meeting to figure out how to reopen as dozens of cops gathered outside the buildingA total of 116 patients were transferred to other NYC Health + Hospitals sites, allowing for the Brooklyn site to shut power and address flood-related damage, the hospital said in a press release.“The health system has begun its assessment of the hospital’s engineering and electrical systems, to understand the extent of any damage caused.
Mayor Eric Adams lauded thousands of public servants who worked to keep New Yorkers safe during the potent storm — giving shout-outs to the staff at Woodhull and New York City Emergency Management, which “seamlessly transferred all of their patients to other hospitals to allow for electrical repairs to address the damage caused by the storm.
When the heavy rains hit Friday, the hospital initially used backup emergency power, but Con Edison needed to shut it down to make necessary repairs,
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