When the Hospital Emergency Room is Inundated with Knee-Deep Water

The author describes lessons learned from and since Hurricane Sandy which flooded the emergency room of Coney Island Hospital. She describes the effect of climate change on healthcare facility flood risk, emphasizes the need to build more resilient infrastructure (and examine and update related construction codes), and highlights the challenges associated with hospitals across the U.S. accessing disaster preparedness funding as potential barriers to effective planning, resilience, and response.