NYC Well being + Hospitals/Woodhull Resumes Hospital Operations at 8am Saturday, October seventh
Emergency Room, Labor & Supply, Behavioral Well being, and all Inpatient Providers Open Saturday; outpatient providers will open on their common weekday schedule, beginning Tuesday, October tenth at 8AM Roughly 50 sufferers might be transferred again to the hospital on Tuesday After a neighborhood energy failure and tools harm attributable to the acute rainfall final Friday, NYC Well being + Hospitals accomplished a protected and orderly evacuation and full affected person switch
Oct 06, 2023
Brooklyn, NY
After an intensive evaluation and restoration of its electrical techniques, NYC Well being + Hospitals/Woodhull will resume inpatient hospital operations on Saturday, October 7 at 8AM. The Emergency Division, Labor & Supply, Behavioral Well being, and different inpatient items will open for care. The hospital’s outpatient providers will resume operation on their typical weekday schedule beginning Tuesday, October 10. Moreover, roughly 50 sufferers who have been transferred through the protected evacuation and stay hospitalized at different NYC Well being + Hospitals services will return to Woodhull Hospital on Tuesday, October 10. The hospital performed an intensive evaluation of the damages incurred to its engineering and electrical techniques, and a herculean effort was made to revive important providers and undertake repairs to carry the power again to full operational capability.
“After final week’s storm, public servants from throughout businesses got here collectively to make sure the switch of sufferers out of NYC Well being + Hospitals/Woodhull was orderly, coordinated, and protected,” stated New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams. “With the required electrical repairs full and important providers restored, NYC Well being + Hospitals/Woodhull is able to start welcoming sufferers once more, with inpatient providers resuming tomorrow and outpatient providers resuming Tuesday, October 10. Thanks to the entire first responders, hospital workers, emergency administration, engineering, and services groups who labored across the clock to make this re-opening doable.”
“We prolong our deepest gratitude and appreciation to all people who answered the decision to help our hospital throughout this terribly difficult week, culminating within the necessity to evacuate our sufferers. Your unwavering dedication, braveness, and selflessness within the face of adversity symbolize the spirit of healthcare professionals and exemplify the true which means of teamwork and resilience. Collectively, we stood united, prioritizing the security and well-being of our sufferers above all else. Your contributions have left an indelible mark on our hospital’s historical past. We stay up for welcoming our sufferers and workers who’ve chosen Woodhull as their hospital of selection. To the households of our sufferers, we’re grateful in your religion in Woodhull to make sure the absolute best take care of these you entrusted to us,” stated Gregory Calliste, CEO, NYC Well being + Hospitals/Woodhull.
“We’re profoundly grateful for the extraordinary dedication and collaborative efforts of our distinctive workers, who got here collectively tirelessly working day and evening to revive our hospital and welcome our sufferers again. Their steadfast dedication to our neighborhood’s well being and security is nothing in need of awe-inspiring. Equally heartening was the large help and speedy response from our native response businesses NYCEM, FDNY, NYPD, and plenty of others, together with our state and federal regulatory companions, NYC Well being + Hospitals Management, our Acute care hospital Senior Leaders together with our Gotham companions, and elected officers, who stood with us in unity, opening their doorways to our sufferers and workers, offering care, and making certain their seamless return to Woodhull. Thanks in your dedication to our mission and for embodying the essence of healthcare excellence throughout this crucial time,” stated Dr. Lisa Scott-McKenzie, COO, NYC Well being + Hospitals/Woodhull.
“Moments like these remind us how necessary Woodhull is to our neighborhood and the way deeply dedicated our workers are to their sufferers. We’re so grateful for the help from throughout Well being + Hospitals and plenty of different companions, which allowed us to do that safely and to reopen as shortly as doable”, stated Ross MacDonald, MD, Chief Medical Officer, NYC Well being + Hospitals/Woodhull.
“We perceive the significance of resuming well being care providers for our neighborhood, and we’re desirous to reopen our doorways to serve our sufferers as soon as once more,” stated Jessica Arocho, Director of Group Affairs, NYC Well being + Hospitals/Woodhull. “Listening to our neighborhood companions and elected officers instantly say, ‘How can I provide help to? Do you want our workers or neighborhood to return out to assist?’ It makes me really feel pleased with the illustration that our hospital has in our elected officers. The outpouring of help and collaboration from the neighborhood and our elected officers throughout this difficult interval has been large, and we’re immensely grateful.”
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NYC Well being + Hospitals is the biggest municipal well being care system within the nation serving greater than 1,000,000 New Yorkers yearly in additional than 70 affected person care places throughout the town’s 5 boroughs. A sturdy community of outpatient, neighborhood-based main and specialty care facilities anchors care coordination with the system’s trauma facilities, nursing houses, post-acute care facilities, house care company, and MetroPlus well being plan—all supported by 11 important hospitals. Its various workforce of greater than 43,000 workers is uniquely centered on empowering New Yorkers, with out exception, to reside the healthiest life doable. For extra data, go to www.nychealthandhospitals.org and keep related on Fb, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.
About NYC Well being + Hospitals/Woodhull
NYC Well being + Hospitals/Woodhull, a part of the NYC Well being + Hospitals well being care system, is the key tertiary care supplier within the borough of Brooklyn. It’s a premiere well being care group for key specialties, together with surgical procedure, cardiology, girls’s well being, pediatrics, rehabilitation medication, renal providers, and behavioral well being providers. Final 12 months, the hospital obtained near 300,000 ambulatory care visits and near 100,000 emergency room visits. For extra data, go to www.nychealthandhospitals.org and keep related on Fb.
