Bellevue Hospital Center, one of the city’s busiest trauma centers, was forced to stop accepting emergency care patients on Friday morning because of a problem with its computer system, fire officials said.
It was not clear what caused the problem or if it was related to damage the hospital suffered from Hurricane Sandy.
“There is something going on with their electrical system,†said a fire official who received the alert to divert all patients. The hospital was still receiving psychiatric patients, the official said.
Hospital officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Bellevue suffered extensive flooding from the hurricane, with 10 million gallons of seawater flooding the basement. The hospital lost power and evacuated hundreds of patients.
There was no immediate information about how the current electrical problem was impacting patients now at the hospital.
