Medical facilities on Georgia's coast are evacuating patients and scaling down services in preparation for tropical storm warnings due to Hurricane Dorian, according to The Gwinnett Daily Post.
Nursing homes and assisted living centers are evacuating residents further inland after Gov. Brian Kemp issued a mandatory evacuation order for coastal counties. Facilities outside of those counties are preparing to receive the evacuees.
Meanwhile, hospitals are canceling elective surgeries and outpatient services and discharging patients who are well enough to go home. Some hospitals with patients who are too sick to leave are keeping those patients in place.
Hospitals are also evacuating infants in their neonatal intensive care units. Most have been transferred to Augusta (Ga.) University Medical Center, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and Piedmont Columbus (Ga.) hospitals.