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<p>Alabama hospitals are preparing to take in patients evacuated from hospitals in areas affected by Tropical Storm Harvey in Texas.</p>
<p>Birmingham Fire Chief Charles Gordon said today that in a conference call with the VA, city officials were told possibly 100 to 150 patients will be flown to the city.</p>
<p>"The VA is coordinating the transport of those patients from Houston to Birmingham, but those patients will go various hospitals throughout the Birmingham area," Gordon said. "The most critical patients will go to UAB."</p>
<p>Birmingham is one of the cities in discussions with the National Disaster Medical System to receive patients, according to a Wednesday morning statement from UAB Hospital.</p>
<p>"UAB Hospital and UAB Highlands Hospital have been preparing for several days in anticipation of receiving potential patients," said UAB Hospital spokesperson Katherine Stephen.</p>
<p>The hospitals haven't received any patients as of yet, she said.</p>
<p>Hundreds of patients in Houston-area hospitals have been evacuated due to flood waters. As of Monday morning, San Antonio Fire Department firefighters had transferred about 800 hospital patients from Houston and other areas affected by Harvey, the Associated Press reported.</p>
<p>UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center Director Michael Birrer said the cancer center is accepting patients currently being treated at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center system.</p>
<p>The Houston-area hospital is closed due to flooding.</p>
<p>"As the tragedy of Hurricane Harvey unfolds, the UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center wants the citizens of Texas, and in particular our colleagues and their patients at Houston hospitals, to know they remain in our thoughts and prayers," Birrer said in a statement. "We realize that hurricanes do not recognize nor respect cancer care. As such, we are ready to step up and help. Continuity of vital health care is a challenge during natural disasters, particularly with a storm as significant as Hurricane Harvey in an area as large as the Houston region. In times like this, cancer care providers are a single team and we welcome partnering with all of our flood affected oncologists to help deliver the very best to our patients.</p>
<p>"The UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center will do whatever we can to work with cancer patients displaced from the storm or otherwise unable to be in the Houston region for tests or treatment," he continued. "We will arrange for the immediate appointment and, if necessary, admission for any patient in the MD Anderson Cancer Center system, as well as other hospitals affected by the storm and flooding for whom care has been disrupted. Please contact us at 205-934-5077 between 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. central."</p>
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<p>The University of South Alabama Mitchell Cancer Institute is accepting cancer patients who can't make it to Houston for treatment due to flooding.</p>
<p>"Our thoughts are with those in Texas suffering after Hurricane Harvey, Mitchell Cancer Institute Director Michael A. Finan said in a statement. "We understand storms here, and one thing is certain: Now is the time for us to help our neighbors. I have asked our physicians, advanced practice providers and clinical staff to do everything they can to open up their schedules to any and all patients from the Southeast who are either undergoing active treatment, are scheduled for follow-up or scans, or are scheduled for an opinion at MD Anderson Cancer Center or other affected hospitals in the region of flooding. I am confident that if we were affected with such a storm in south Alabama, our neighbors would be reaching out to help us and our patients. We want to do the same for those suffering now."</p>
        
        
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