hlthe2b
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Sun Aug-28-05 11:03 PM
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Can anyone watching NO news update me on the hospitals? |
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Have they indicated which (if any) have closed/relocated patients? I'm specifically asking about Touro which is near the Quarter and which would be at great risk. I have close friends working there who I can't reach. Anyone heard anything?
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Sun Aug-28-05 11:05 PM
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1. I wouldn't worry too much about the hospitals |
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They are generally the most structurally sound buildings in any city for that reason. Hospitals have elaborate emergency preparedness procedures. If your friends are in NO and stuck in a hospital, they are probably in one of the safest places they can be. I'll keep them in my prayers.
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Sun Aug-28-05 11:18 PM
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2. "Can anyone watching NO news update me on the hospitals?" |
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My understanding they have moved all non- critical patients and staff to the Super Dome critical and higher to other hospitals out of the aera.
Hopes this helps.
Good Luck !!
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Sun Aug-28-05 11:25 PM
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4. Just tuned in...haven't heard yet. |
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Sun Aug-28-05 11:26 PM
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5. I thought that must surely be the case... The central hospitals... |
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will surely flood, even if they sustain the damage...Good God, I pray for a turn of course--major!
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Sun Aug-28-05 11:20 PM
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3. I just heard that three people have died in the process |
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of evacuating hospitals (WDSU)
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Sun Aug-28-05 11:51 PM
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9. This was from a nursing home that was evacuated. |
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They were taking the residents to Baton Rouge.
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Sun Aug-28-05 11:38 PM
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6. I just heard an interview on MSNBC with someone from Tulane Hosp |
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They are planning to remain open but have evacuated the lower 2(?) floors. The OR was moved higher, too (I can't imagine how they could actually do that, but that's what I think I heard).
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Sun Aug-28-05 11:46 PM
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7. thanks. for the update... but now I am getting even more worried... |
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Edited on Sun Aug-28-05 11:51 PM by hlthe2b
Bless all in NOLA. My prayers are with you.
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Sun Aug-28-05 11:53 PM
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Hospitals are probably the safest buildings anywhere. They just have to get up out of the floods. ANother poster here today said they had a friend who was a doc there. They have assigned many personnel to the Superdome and the others are at the actual facilities.
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Mon Aug-29-05 12:03 AM
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15. Yes, I'm sure you're right, HWNN.... I'd not be so concerned |
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if it were most any hospital other than Touro--just knowing where it is located. Give the French Quarter is expected to be under 20feet of water, so, too would this hospital...
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Sun Aug-28-05 11:51 PM
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8. They will clean out a room upstairs and then |
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they basically just move their sterile supply carts upward and designate the area as the operating room. It's easier than it sounds. The only surgery they will be doing is emergency surgery. It's going to be difficult without running water.
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Sun Aug-28-05 11:53 PM
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10. and air conditioning---can you imagine? |
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Back to civil war type conditions....
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Sun Aug-28-05 11:54 PM
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It's been so humid down here. Add the heat and the water...conditions will become unbearable quick.:(
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Sun Aug-28-05 11:59 PM
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13. Where are you, now, HWNN? |
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Mon Aug-29-05 12:02 AM
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In Northeast Texas--we are about 6 hours northwest of NO.
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Mon Aug-29-05 12:05 AM
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18. Thank heavens... I think we do have a DUer posting from NOLA |
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that I saw earlier, though?
So, are you near Shreveport, LA? I used to live there many years ago. Down the street from Terry Bradshaw's childhood home, actually... My very feable claim to fame :eyes:
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Mon Aug-29-05 12:04 AM
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16. If it helps, I have seen nothing or heard nothing about the hospitals |
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That means either 1-info isn't getting out, 2-no problems, or 3-both.
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Mon Aug-29-05 12:04 AM
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Is built extremely strongly, in theory it should structurally be fine (window breakage).
As for the flooding, its actually located in one of the few areas of the city above sea level.
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Mon Aug-29-05 12:06 AM
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19. Yes? that's reassuring. Thanks |
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