New York’s Bellevue Hospital resumes services after Sandy

NEW YORK (Reuters) – More than three months after Superstorm Sandy forced Manhattan’s Bellevue Hospital Center to evacuate 500 patients and shut down one of the busiest emergency rooms in the city, the hospital reopened for normal operations on Thursday. Bellevue, located near the East River, was evacuated on October 31 when its basement – which housed electrical switching gear and other equipment critical to the hospital’s operations – took in millions of gallons of water. It was the hospital’s first evacuation in its 276-year history. Several area hospitals, including Mount Sinai and St. …