Baptist Beaumont (Texas) Hospital airlifted about 200 patients to neighboring facilities during an evacuation Thursday after flooding shut off hospital access to clean water, according to Fox News Health.
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Tropical Storm Harvey has devastated southeastern Texas and surrounding Gulf regions, with historic rainfall totals that have led to severe flooding and at least 30 deaths as of Wednesday morning, according to The New York Times.
Historic flooding caused by Tropical Storm Harvey has forced 23 hospitals in the Houston area to evacuate more than 1,500 patients, according to the Houston Chronicle.
HHS has established a 250-bed federal medical station at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston to assist those affected by Hurricane Harvey.
Several national health insurers pledged assistance in the wake of Hurricane Harvey's landfall and subsequent catastrophic flooding.