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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A new federal report finds hospitals in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut were not prepared to meet the challenges of Superstorm Sandy.
The study from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service's Inspector General Office was released Wednesday. It's based on surveys of 172 hospitals hit hard by the storm in October 2012.
It finds that hospitals had surges in patients that were unexpected as well as power outages and problems with backup generators and transportation to get employees into work.
It says nearly 90 percent of the hospitals faced "critical challenges."
In many cases, the issues had been identified in citations for deficiencies issued in the years before the storm.
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