NYU Hospital Defends Failed Generators That Forced Evacuation During Hurricane Sandy
Posted in: Today's ChiliThe failed backup power generators that led to the evacuation of the New York University Langone Medical Center in Manhattan are adequate, a spokeswoman said Tuesday.
“Our generators are fully compliant with all state and federal regulations and, using good prudence, we test them all the time as we have to do anyway,” Lisa Greiner told HuffPost. More than 200 patients, including 20 infants from the neonatal intensive care unit, were relocated to other hospitals during Hurricane Sandy on Monday night and Tuesday morning.
The chairman of the hospital’s board, who was one of the patients evacuated Monday night, said he and NYU believed the generators would hold up through the storm, Bloomberg News reported Tuesday. “Do you think they’d have kept me in there if they thought I was going to be unsafe?” Home Depot founder Kenneth Langone told Bloomberg News.
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