Bellevue Hospital's Response to Hurricane Sandy

Bellevue Hospital's Response to Hurricane Sandy serves as a later point of comparison in the book’s discussion of hospital preparedness. The references establish that Bellevue was examined in reporting and a 2013 study about Sandy’s effects, while offering little detail here about the hospital’s actions during the emergency itself.

A later case in disaster reporting

In November 2012, about two months after the storm, Sheri Fink published a ProPublica article examining questions raised by decisions not to evacuate hospitals during hurricanes. The citation places hospital evacuation choices within the wider scrutiny of disaster response, rather than providing a specific account of Bellevue’s operations.

Bellevue as a subject of study

A March 2013 interview with Laura Evans is cited alongside her article Beyond Hurricane Heroics: What Sandy Has to Teach Us All About Preparedness, published in Stanford Medicine Magazine that summer. The same reference points to a study, In Search of the Silver Lining: The Impact of Superstorm Sandy on Bellevue Hospital, published in Annals of the American Thoracic Society. Together, these works identify Bellevue as a subject through which the storm’s lessons for preparedness were considered.

Scope of the account

The references establish the timing and focus of the Bellevue material, but do not specify the hospital’s particular emergency measures, evacuation decisions, or outcomes. Its significance in this account is therefore as a documented case for examining preparedness after Sandy, not as a fully narrated sequence of events.