Study finds many hospitals on Gulf, Atlantic Coast at risk of flooding in hurricane

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Study finds many hospitals on Gulf, Atlantic Coast at risk of flooding in hurricane
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A new study found just how many hospitals are at risk of flooding due to hurricanes here in the United States.

“Our study really asked the question ‘How resilient is our hospital care that serves roughly one in four people in the United States that live on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts to the effects of hurricanes?’,” said Doctor Aaron Bernstein, a pediatrician and climate expert. He is also the interim director of The Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.“Ocean heat is hurricane food,” he said.

“Roughly a third of the metro areas from the southern tip of Texas to the top of Maine have about half of their hospitals at risk of flooding from a relatively weak storm. A Category 2 storm,” Dr. Bernstein said.“Particularly in Florida, there are many metro areas in Florida we found where over half the roads are likely to be inaccessible within a mile of the hospital,” he said.

“If you are requiring regular access to a hospital for care you need, whether that's for a drug infusion or radiation therapy or something else, and it's pretty clear that hospital is going to be inaccessible due to flooding, I think it's really helpful to plan with your care providers a plan B,” Dr. Bernstein said.

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