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Patients displaced by storm fill LI hospitals

Originally published: November 1, 2012 8:06 PM
Updated: November 1, 2012 9:35 PM
By RIDGELY OCHS ridgely.ochs@newsday.com

Photo credit: Nicole Bartoline | The Nassau University Medical Center is located at 2201 Hempstead Turnpike. (March 12, 2012)

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Some Long Island hospitals were close to full or beyond capacity Thursday as they tried to care for patients transferred from evacuated facilities or people unable to see their regular doctors because of the storm.

Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow, which normally has 350 to 375 patients, reported it had 553 -- the highest number in the past two decades.

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