During Hurricane Ida in 2021, FEMA reported 39 Louisiana medical facilities were running on generator power. Traditional emergency systems are built to carry only a fraction of a hospital’s operations and when an outage stretches from hours into days, that gap becomes a patient care problem.
After Ida, Baton Rouge General evaluated how full-facility backup power could strengthen continuity across its Bluebonnet and Mid City campuses. The result was a true resiliency strategy.
In this session leaders will walk through the operational risks that shaped the decision, the partnership model that made it possible and what that strategy looks like in practice.
What you’ll learn:
- How Baton Rouge General evaluated outage risks after Hurricane Ida
- Why full-facility backup power provides broader continuity than traditional emergency systems
- How natural gas microgrids can reduce community impact compared with diesel generation