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1. One of the most basic hospital facility requirements is electricity. Hospitals have backup generators and test them as part of regulatory compliance tests. However, some hospitals have not really planned for natural disasters. NYU Langone Medical Center and Bellevue Hospital Center both lost power during hurricane Sandy when their backup generators failed. "While both hospitals put their generators on high floors where they could be protected in a flood, other critical components of the backup power system, such as fuel pumps and tanks, remained in basements just a block from the East River."

Class: What risk principles were not addressed by these hospitals? 150-200 words


http://healthland.time.com/2012/10/30/lessons-from...

2.Discuss strategies for phyiscan involement. 150-200 words

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Running head: RISK PRINCIPLES

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Risk Principles: A NYU Langone Medical Center and Bellevue Hospital Case Study

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RISK PRINCIPLES

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Risk Principles: A NYU Langone Medical Center and Bellevue Hospital Case Study
To begin with, authorities had predicted the likelihood of an event such as the one posed
by Hurricane Sandy to occur. Therefore, this called for full preparedness to combat any
shortcomings of this event. In the case of the medical facilities highlighted in the topic above,
theirs is a case of lack of proper emergency preparedness which is a risk principle that
emergency facilities should be braced to ha...


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