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Baptist Health South Florida Opens Field Hospital

in Marathon to Care for Middle Keys Community

After Hurricane Irma

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
Hos pital, a part of Baptist
Health South Florida, is cur-
rently closed due to Hurricane
Irma. Baptist Health opened 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 equip- A mobile disaster hospital has opened on the grounds of Fishermen’s Community
ment and’s a laboratory. A team Hospital to provide care for the Middle Keys community impacted by Hurrican Irma.
from the Mississippi Depart -
ment 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.

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