Louisiana hospitals are preparing for Tropical Storm Barry's landfall by stocking supplies and generator fuel, according to The Daily Advertiser.
"We're full steam hurricane watch," Patricia Thompson, Lafayette (La.) General Hospital's director of communications, told the publication. "We're all monitoring the storm. We have extra supplies, generators, fuel."
Tropical Storm Barry is expected to make landfall Saturday and develop into a Category 1 hurricane.
Lafeyette General will operate as normal Friday morning and re-evaluate late Friday afternoon, hospital officials said.
At another Lafayette hospital, Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center, employees began preparing for the storm earlier this week by shoring up staffing and coordinating with other campuses and hospital departments to determine which extra supplies might be needed, the hospital's public information officer, Elizabeth Arnold, told the publication.