Dr. Kevin Jordan
Dr. Jordan provided an interesting approach used by Touro to enable evacuating patients to carry their medical records with them:
"It goes into a binder. The patient puts on a smock and it goes with the patient. The smock says "I’m a Touro patient. Call 1-800-401-Touro." And the record is in the smock with them so if they have to leave in a hurry, record, contact information, hard copy and electronic disk goes with the patient, with their images and all kinds of stuff."
Dr. Jordan described the efforts of Touro’s CEO and board members to assist in evacuating the hospital:
"We arranged for air medical evacuation. . . and closed it . . . that Thursday. . . . We used the resources we had, members of the board who knew people, the new CEO at that point had some contacts around the country so he called them, and folks started helping us to arrange people [to have people evacuated.]"