ER patients should use front entrance
By Al Everson
posted Aug 22, 2008 - 2:34:53pm
A televised report — that flooding on the ground floor of Florida Hospital-Fish Memorial Hospital in in Orange City caused patients to be moved to higher floors — is not true, a hospital official said.
There is no flooding inside the hospital building.
What is happening at the hospital, near the intersection of Saxon Boulevard and Veterans Memorial Parkway in Orange City, is that flooding in the parking area has closed the emergency-room entrance to ambulance traffic.
"The emergency department is dry, but there is no accessibility," said
Debbie McNabb, administrative director of marketing and public relations for the hospital. "If someone needs to go to the ER, we're asking them to go through the front entrance of the hospital."
The front entrance is off Saxon Boulevard. McNabb said patients may also enter the emergency room through the ER lobby entrance, which is in the rear of the building, but at a difference entrance than the one normally used by ambulances.
Ambulance traffic is being diverted to other area hospitals.
Thursday and Friday, water poured from construction sites and other areas uphill from the hospital along Harley Strickland Boulevard.
McNabb said there are 113 patients in the hospital today. Hospital officials are asking that people limit visiting those patients, because of the parking-lot flooding and the high demand for parking.
McNabb said there is water in an outpatient-services building on the hospital campus. This is a new building, situated just north of the hospital. That buidling is closed, McNabb said.
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