Check out how safe are our hospitals

The Napa River in Napa, California, as viewed from COPIA (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

In the wake of the Napa earthquake, attention is now being turned again to how safe are our local hospitals. Legislation requires hospitals to retrofit. Some have. Some have not due to the high costs.

This article details the list of California hospitals and shows the status of needed retrofitting.

Check it out.
http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/08/30/how-will-your-hospital-fare-in-the-next-earthquake/

If you want you can skip directly to the listing of all hospitals just click the link: http://oshpd.ca.gov/FDD/seismic_compliance/SB1953/ExtensionRequests.pdf

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