florence because as we have all seen it s a large area that has been affected. arthel: it s a great idea because not just you do have people who did try to evacuate and they found themselves leaving but then where do they go and perhaps they got half way to where they thought they were going to go, that s actually a great idea that you have the additional shelters set up, we are showing pictures right now of door to door rescues underway, are more residents showing up ms. baker, also is how is everyone holding up emotionally in those shelters? absolutely, a disaster is complex and complicated. i have been in south carolina over the past few days and talked to people who went through hurricane katrina and here they are years later going through florence. they are concerned about what their homes would be like and we
we ve also been in communication with fema and they ve made a commitment that they are going to help to if we need to. arthel: finally, how long will the generators will last now? we have been off 5 hours and we still have pretty good reserves left. arthel: pretty good reserves. about 5 more days. arthel: we hope full power is restored before that runs out. is there any way, is there some way if there are folks watching with family there, how can they contact you, is there any way to do that? sure, they can look us up on the website, they can reach out to the operator and they ll get you in touch. what s your website? it is conwaymedicalcenter.com. arthel: chief financial officer for the conway medical center in south carolina, thank you. thank you. eric: president trump has issued disaster declaration for the state north carolina, the federal government s aid can
the conway medical center right now. thanks for having me, right now we have about 72 eldery folks in nursing home, they decide today shelter in place and that facility is holding up very well and the hospital right now we have about 150 patients and we have seen approximately 250 emergency room visits here today alone. arthel: emergency room visits, could you give us an idea of the range of the illnesses there that you re dealing with? absolutely, everything from heart, broken bones from fallen debris, cuts from trying to clear the fallen debris, you know, really just all types of injuries associated with cleaning up the area outside of your home. arthel: how many doctors, nurses? 250 nurses, about 30 physicians, dietary staff, environmental services, so all in all we had about 300 folks that we were keeping here. arthel: and i know that you have
military playing a role too, both the national guard and soldiers using high-water vehicles and helicopters to perform those rescues, the problem now is also electricity, several hundred thousand people without power, power crews are working around the clock to try and get that back up as quickly as possible be with all of the debris on the road and down power lines that s till a very dangerous job, back to you. eric: that it is, steve, thank you, arthel. arthel: and eric, hundreds of elderly people evacuated before the storm taking to the conway medical center in south carolina, the facility has a generator and weeks of food, let s see how it s holding up, joining me on the phone is brian argo, chief financial officer for conway medical center, mr. argo, first of all, thank you for taking time to talk to us, a lot of people want to know that the elderly residents are in good shape and if you could tell us how many people are at