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Long Island Business News
Published: November 2, 2012
Tags: gas, hospitals, Hurricane Sandy, Long Island, Nassau University Medical Center, Nassau-Suffolk Hospital Council, North Shore Long Island Jewish
The gasoline shortage is continuing to take its toll on industry, leading hospitals to set up programs to help employees get to work and prompting some companies to curtail deliveries.
The Nassau-Suffolk Hospital Council said Long Island hospitals are operating on normal power, except for Long Beach Medical Center, which remains closed.
But now that fuel is flowing to hospitals, which in some cases relied on back-up generators, these institutions are concerned about their staff?s ability to get to work.
?The most pressing issue at this time for hospitals and other essential services is access to fuel,? said Kevin Dahill, CEO of the Nassau-Suffolk Hospital Council. ? The ability for staff to report to work is becoming compromised.?
NuHealth System, parent of Nassau University Medical Center, said it?s worried about the impact of the automobile fuel shortage on workers.
NuHealth CEO Arthur A. Gianelli said he?s asking the Nassau County emergency command center to ?make limited amounts of fuel available to essential clinical personnel who need to report to the hospital over the next 48 hours.?
?We received a fuel shipment last evening at A. Holly Patterson,? Gianelli said. ?We require additional trained staff to meet the dialysis needs with which we are being presented.?
The North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System also took steps to help employees whose vehicles were damaged our out of fuel get to works.
?We have established an emergency employee resource center to help employees in need of housing, transportation, etc.,? said Terry Lynam, spokesman for North Shore-LIJ.
The system said it?s setting up shuttle services for employees at many other North Shore-LIJ facilities and promoting carpooling on a new website.
While hospitals, among the region?s biggest employers, are delivering babies, other deliveries are few and far between.
Restaurants are taking steps to conserve gas by suspending deliveries, although they?re often busy selling to customers who don?t have electricity.
?I?m not making any deliveries today,? said Frank Hirsch, manager for a Subway restaurant in Syosset. ?I can?t afford to use the gas. I?ve got enough gas to get back and forth two more times. After that, I?m done.?
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Source: http://libn.com/2012/11/02/hospitals-help-workers-travel-restaurants-drop-deliveries/
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