Twenty-eight patients were at the hospital on Tuesday, and are moving to other local hospitals by Coastal Ambulance vehicles.

As part of the shutdown, 28 Cape Canaveral Hospital patients were safely re-admitted to other Health First hospitals in Brevard.

Cape Canaveral, and areas south of Titusville, will likely experience the eye of Hurricane Milton during Thursday’s late morning/early afternoon hours, according to meteorologists.

Above: Watch WESH 2's continuous live coverage of Milton Hurricane Milton, currently churning in the Gulf of Mexico, is expected to make landfall in Florida soon before making its way across the state.

Hospitals, emergency departments and health care facilities across Florida are reopening after they evacuated patients and canceled elective surgeries due to Hurricane Milton. BayCare health care system said some of its ambulatory surgery centers,

HCA Florida Healthcare, which operates dozens of hospitals along the path of Hurricane Milton, released this list on the statuses of hospitals in Tampa Bay and beyond. T The following medical centers are not open,

As Hurricane Milton barreled toward the west coast of Florida, hospitals in its path were making ready. Milton is projected to make landfall a bit south of the Tampa area late Wednesday night. Long-term care facilities in counties where mandatory evacuations have been issued have taken their patients elsewhere,