Its predecessor was wrecked in Hurricane Sandy, but the new Ruth Bader Ginsberg Hospital in Brooklyn should be able to avoid flooding and blackouts.
The water rushed into the hospital’s basement, where the power cables were placed. Over an hour after the first floor was inundated, the power in the building went out. “You could hold your hand out in front of you, and you couldn’t see a thing. So that was really scary,” Brady said.NYC Health+Hospitals/South Brooklyn Healthas a safety precaution. The medical staff used flashlights to treat patients and keep notes on paper while computer systems were down.
“We still wound up getting walk-ins. Matter of fact, we got people who were delivered by boat to the lobby,” said Daniel Collins, the hospital’s head of facilities.Future floods shouldn’t be able to reach the new emergency department, which is located on the second flooded to protect the medical facility from a 500-year flood. This means that the hospital is protected from intense flooding that has aA car caught fire outside of the old Coney Island Hospital during Hurricane Sandy in 2012.
The area is still susceptible to future flooding. The new NYC Health + Hospitals/South Brooklyn Health is at the edge of the Sheepshead Bay, right above the Brighton Beach neighborhood. According to the , an online tool used to assess future flood risk, the area is at moderate risk of flooding in the next 30 years, which means “flooding is likely to impact day-to-day life within the community.”upgrades across the medical campus. The future second-floor emergency department is now larger., a robotic surgery theater, and inpatient dialysis. When it opensbeds and 80 private medical surgical beds.
The Ruth Badger Ginsburg Hospital in Brooklyn will have its emergency floor on the second floor. Ambulances can access it via the concrete ramp shown here.
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