Sixty-four Fla.-based healthcare facilities report evacuations

Sixty-four Fla.-based healthcare facilities report evacuations  
Healthcare Purchasing News - Regulatory; by Janette Wider; 10/8/24 
[Note, we are posting this for our 10/8/24 issue on 10/8, 11:50 am, with more evacuations surely underway.] 
Ahead of Hurricane Milton the Agency for Health Care Administration initiated an event in the Health Facility Reporting System. ... Health care providers have been requested to provide information on census, available beds, evacuation status, accepting evacuees and generator needs from counties declared under EO-24-114. This information allows AHCA to assist health care providers in transferring patients if needed and ensure that health care providers in impacted areas have the necessary resources and adequate power. 64 health care facilities have reported evacuations. This includes:

• 21 assisted living facilities
• 4 hospitals
• 33 nursing home
• 1 residential treatment centers for children and adolescents
• 4 residential treatment centers
• 1 hospice
• [names of these facilities are not provided]