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The temporary hospital on the campus of Fishermen’s Community Hospital, which is closed due to Hurricane Irma, opened for patients on Tuesday, Sept. 26.
Fishermen’s Community Hospital, a part of Baptist Health South Florida, is currently closed due to Hurricane Irma. Baptist Health will open a full-service field hospital on the grounds of Fishermen’s in order to provide care for the Middle Keys community.
The mobile disaster hospital, which was provided by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, includes a five-bed emergency department, a six-bed in-patient unit, diagnostic equipment and a laboratory. A team from the Mississippi Department of Health has also assisted with setup and training.
This mobile disaster hospital was deployed in 2005 to south Mississippi in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, to Louisville, Miss., in 2014, after a tornado heavily damaged that community’s hospital and to Kinston, N.C., in 2016, when flooding from Hurricane Matthew prevented highway access for some areas to the local hospital.
One of Florida International University’s Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine Green Family Foundation NeighborhoodHELP mobile units will also be on site, and will house the command center for the field hospital.
