NDLI: Observations from the emergency management of dialysis patients evacuated from the US Virgin Islands to Puerto Rico following hurricane Irma

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Author	Avilés Mendoza, Guillermo J. Finne, Kristen P. Torre Leon, Francisco Burke, Lisandro Montalvo Cabrera-Marquez, Jessica Mercado Casillas, Ana M. Malave, Grasiela Brown, Christopher Kelman, Jeffrey Kopp, Jeffrey B.
Abstract	Two category 5 hurricanes, Irma and Maria, arrived in the Caribbean in September 2017 in rapid succession. On September 6, Irma devastated the islands of St. Thomas and St. John, in the Virgin Islands of the United States (USVI). Most medical infrastructure was damaged, including hemodialysis facilities, paralyzing dialysis operations. After Irma’s landfall, Puerto Rico served as a safehaven for thousands of displaced and repatriated persons from the impacted islands. These included a cohort of 129 hemodialysis patients evacuated from St. Thomas, USVI to San Juan, Puerto Rico from September 9−11, 2017. The hemodialysis patients arrived first at hotels in San Juan and were then transferred to a Special Needs Shelter, run by the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and located in the Puerto Rico Convention Center. With the imminent arrival of Hurricane Maria, most patients were evacuated on September 19 to a special needs shelter on the campus of the Florida International University, in Miami, Florida. While in San Juan, hemodialysis treatments were provided by local nephrologists working with local hemodialysis centers. Here, we describe the challenges and the emergency management actions taken to ensure continuity of care, including providing dialysis, general medical care, shelter, food and transportation for USVI dialysis patients during their stay in San Juan, Puerto Rico. We describe here the experiences of federal and host state/territorial officials in the special needs shelter, in the context of the state/territorial and federal response to disasters, in order to provide ideas about challenges, solutions, and approaches to coordinating care for dialysis patients evacuated from a disaster.
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Page Count	10
Starting Page	1
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ISSN	14726963
DOI	10.1186/s12913-021-07194-6
Journal	BMC Health Services Research
Issue Number	1
Volume Number	21
Language	English
Publisher	BioMed Central
Publisher Date	2021-11-16
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Public Health Health Administration Health Informatics Nursing Research Disaster response Special needs population Access and functional needs Disaster shelters End-stage renal disease dialysis Hemodialysis US public health service Volunteers End-stage renal disease network
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Correspondence
Subject	Health Policy

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