Welcome to Weathering the Storms, Baptist Health South Florida’s hurricane season blog.
This blog serves as your source for hurricane updates and information from the perspective of South Florida’s largest faith-based, not-for-profit healthcare organization. Baptist Health’s hurricane preparedness takes into account the health, safety and welfare of 12,000-plus employees, and a network of healthcare services that extend throughout Miami-Dade, Broward and Monroe Counties.
Our hurricane plan covers Baptist, Baptist Children’s, South Miami, Homestead, Mariners and Doctors Hospitals, and Baptist Cardiac & Vascular Institute. In addition, we make special provisions for Baptist Outpatient Services, which includes outpatient diagnostic and urgent care facilities, such as Baptist Medical Plazas, surgical facilities and home health care services. We also monitor our International Center of Miami, one of the largest hospital-based international programs in America.
We feel it is timely to share our preparedness expertise with our community and other healthcare partners in the region. With this shared knowledge, we’ll strive to “weather the storms” and remain safe during the 2010 hurricane season. We encourage you to log on to our blog frequently, as new information will be posted real-time as often as necessary during the season. Moreover, the blog will always include anecdotes about previous hurricane seasons that will be informative, as well as somewhat entertaining. As a blog reader, you will be able to subscribe to our RSS feed for updates, and we welcome your comments to our postings.
Wayne Brackin is the executive vice president and chief operating officer of Baptist Health South Florida, overseeing five hospitals (plus a new hospital under construction) and ten outpatient centers in hurricane-prone South Florida. He has been weathering storms in Baptist Health facilities since 1985, and has been recognized for his leadership in disaster preparedness and recovery. He serves as the organization’s Incident Commander for all disasters.
