![]() Raising parts of facilities above flood level, and a new, elevated building at Coney Island Hospital, are also being examined and will be contingent on FEMA funding. The scope of the plans includes permanent flood walls to protect facility perimeters, and the repositioning and hardening of internal systems such as generators, chillers, boilers, steam, and plumbing and medical gas delivery systems. HHC is actively examining the effectiveness and cost-efficiency of a number of long-term measures to protect its facilities and to minimize service disruptions in the event of another storm of Sandy’s magnitude. The majority of the FEMA funds for repairs are being directed towards electrical, water, heating, communications systems and patient care areas at Bellevue, Coney Island and Metropolitan hospitals, and the Coler Specialty Hospital and Nursing Facility. It has received $61 million in FEMA emergency funds to reimburse it for repair work and another $181 million in Community Development Block Grants from the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development for other extraordinary expenses that HHC incurred while its facilities were out of service. To date, HHC has paid $198 million for repairs, including $100.5 million at Bellevue and $50.1 million at Coney Island Hospital. HHC estimates that the impact of Hurricane Sandy on the New York City public hospital system will exceed $800 million to cover response, repairs, and the work required to mitigate future flood damage. But we rely on FEMA to fund projects that will make our hospitals able to endure future storms with minimal service interruptions.” “We have worked within the guidelines of Mayor Bloomberg’s ‘Special Initiative for Rebuilding and Resiliency’ to create an effective plan. “There’s been a flurry of activity over the last 12 months not only to repair, restore, rebuild and replace areas that were damaged, but also to be better prepared for the next storm,” said HHC President Alan D. Aviles was at Bellevue Hospital Center today almost one year after Hurricane Sandy to review major repair work on electrical systems and other critical areas, and to urge FEMA to make funding available for the long-term mitigation of potential future storm damage at vulnerable HHC facilities including Bellevue, Coney Island Hospital and the Coler Specialty Hospital and Nursing Facility. New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) President Alan D.
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