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

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

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Health First is evacuating Cape Canaveral Hospital in Cocoa Beach ahead of Hurricane Milton. The city of Cocoa Beach made the announcement Tuesday afternoon on Facebook, noting there were no evacuation orders for the barrier islands yet.

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,