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Climate change is coming for hospitals

Kaitlin Sullivan
July 11, 2024
Despite flood conditions in Seminole County, Florida, an ambulance makes a run during Tropical Storm Fay on August 21, 2008. (Photo: Barry Bahler/FEMA)

Thousands of health care facilities around the world are buckling under the effects of climate change, a trend experts predict will worsen in the coming decades as extreme weather increases pressure on hospital infrastructure and simultaneously creates more demand for care.

Kaitlin Sullivan is a freelance journalist based in Colorado. She has a master’s in health and science reporting from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY.