Ahead Of Hurricane, Some Carolina Patients Evacuated To Ga. Health Facilities

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September 12th, 2018

On Tuesday, people drive over a drawbridge in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, as they evacuate the area in advance of Hurricane Florence. In Georgia, hospitals, nursing homes and assisted living facilities are receiving patients who are being evacuated from the Carolinas as the hurricane heads toward the Southeastern coast, state officials said.

Chuck Burton / Associated Press

Hospitals, nursing homes and assisted living facilities in Georgia are receiving patients evacuating from the Carolinas as Hurricane Florence approaches the Southeastern coast, state officials said Tuesday.

Georgia appears likely to escape the brunt of the Category 4 storm as it spins toward landfall. But state health care officials are preparing for an influx of evacuees from states hard hit by the storm.

“We may have to open shelters’’ to house people fleeing Florence, Dr. Patrick O’Neal, commissioner of the Georgia Department of Public Health, said Tuesday at an agency board meeting.

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