
What Happens When the Power Cuts Out at a Medical Facility?
For medical facilities, emergency power plans are a matter of life or death. When an outage occurs at a hospital, urgent care, or other medical facility, the effects can be life-threatening. Vital services and equipment like medical ventilators, incubators, and dialysis machines rely on electricity to function—and patients rely on them to survive. Loss of HVAC, water pressure, sterilization technology,…