LICH response to Storm
Advance planning and dedicated staff allowed University Hospital of Brooklyn at Long Island College Hospital to not only care for their own patients but to accept ventilator-dependent patients from the Hopkins Center, a nursing home in Boerum Hill.
On the Friday before the storm, staff members were informed that they would need to remain at the hospital until relieved.
“All hospital workers are considered essential workers, even those (like me) who do not deliver patient care,” wrote Zipporah Dvash, who heads the public affairs department at the hospital, in response to an email inquiry sent by this newspaper. “We didn’t have an issue with physician attendance, and as most of our resident physicians live across the street, we’re in good shape.”