HOSPITAL
Lucile Packard Children ’ s Hospital
and will be placing reusable water into a cistern from three sources : rainwater from the roof , condensate from the air conditioning system and the reject water from dialysis .
These methods give the hospital approximately 110,000 gallons of water at any given time , and if there were ever an emergency and the hospital didn ’ t want to use its fourto seven-day emergency supply of potable water to flush the toilets , it could drain the cistern water for other uses , reported the magazine .
The 268-bed Miami Children ’ s Hospital ( MCH ) serves seven counties in southern Florida , including populous Miami-Dade County , and is the region ’ s only specialty hospital
for children . Beginning in 2001 , MCH underwent a state-of-the-art retrofit to enable it to withstand a Category 4 hurricane . The hospital campus is now wrapped in a hurricane resistant shell .
The project was completed in the spring of 2004 , just prior to Florida ’ s hurricane season . Young patients and their families did not need to evacuate from the hospital when Hurricanes Frances and Jeanne struck .
In addition , the hospital welcomed over 60 children who lived at home but were evacuated from the Florida Keys — children who depended on ventilators or other electricallypowered medical equipment . During Hurricane Frances , MCH was the temporary refuge for nearly 1,000
10 June 2015