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Hurricane Gustav: Status Report

Date: Monday, September 1, 2008
Time: 9:25 am

The School of Nursing received a call Monday, September 1, 2008 with an update on the nursing home patients from New Orleans. All were triaged at the airport and half were sent to area hospitals, too sick for shelter setting. The other half arrived at the Austin Convention Center via ambulance and were also found to be at a high acuity level (respiratory difficulties, patients with trach, etc). A DMAT team was brought in to care for these patients -- a disaster medical assistance team of physicians and nurses from Ohio. The City RNs and other volunteers have been told not to report to the Convention
Center today.

The School of Nursing will keep you posted -- in Stand Down mode now.

Thanks to all of you who offered to volunteer -- we'll see what happens later in the week.

This has been a good drill to assess our SON disaster response protocol.

Visit the School of Nursing Disaster Preparedness web site for more information on Hurricane Gustav.