Get Up And Do Something: With Some Hospitals Closed After Hurricane, E.R.’s at Others Overflow

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With Some Hospitals Closed After Hurricane, E.R.'s at Others Overflow Dec 6th 2012, 11:30 A month after Hurricane Sandy struck New York City, unexpectedly shutting down several hospitals, one Upper East Side medical center had so many more emergency room patients than usual that it was parking them in its lobby. White and blue plastic screens had been set up between the front door and the elevator banks in the East 68th Street building of that hospital, NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell. The screens shielded 10 gurneys and an improvised nursing station from the view of people obliviously walking in and out of the soaring, light-filled atrium. "It's like a World War II ward," Teri Daniels, who had been waiting a day and a half with a relative who needed to be admitted, said last week.

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