Hurricane Sandy Exposes Risks Of Closing of St. Vincent's Hospital.
From 1010 WINS : NYU Langone Hospital being evacuated after backup generator dies.
Patients are being taken down manually down flights of stairs and are expected to be transferred to Mount Sinai Medical Center in Manhattan.
Because NYU Langone Hospital has no electricity or phone service, they cannot notify the relatives or emergency contact persons of the NYU Langone Hospital's patients until the patients are received by a new hospital, WNBC has reported.
