Long Beach Medical Center eyes March reopening
Photo credit: Howard Schnapp | Damage to Long Beach Medical Center is still evident on Dec. 6, 2012.
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Long Beach Medical Center, the only hospital for the 38,000 residents of the barrier island, needs more than $56 million to fix damage from superstorm Sandy, and it won't reopen until mid-March.
Hospital chief executive Douglas Melzer estimated that more than three months of work will be needed before the 162-bed medical center -- which has 13,000 visits annually to its emergency department...
