Are Beaufort County hospitals still open?
Hilton Head Regional Medical Center is set to close at 4 p.m. on Saturday, according to a Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office release. It says this will include the emergency room.
Beaufort Memorial Hospital received a waiver to “shelter in place” during Hurricane Irma, according to a hospital news release sent Friday night. The waiver allows the hospital to keep its emergency room open and allow for critical personnel to remain in the building.
While the hospital’s emergency room will remain open until as late as Sunday morning, the staff isn’t equipped to admit new patients to the hospital, the release said. Transfer agreements will remain in place and new patients could be sent to other hospitals. Surgeries and physician practices are canceled through Tuesday.
Hilton Head Hospital and Coastal Carolina Hospital began moving patients to their sister hospital, Piedmont Medical Center, in Rock Hill, on Thursday.
The emergency room at Coastal Carolina Medical Center will remain open, the Sheriff’s Office release states.
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This story was originally published September 8, 2017 at 10:16 AM with the headline "Are Beaufort County hospitals still open?."