{"id":200040,"date":"2026-05-22T18:15:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T18:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/200040\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T18:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T18:15:12","slug":"jefferson-methodist-hospital-in-south-philadelphia-set-to-fully-reopen-after-power-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/200040\/","title":{"rendered":"Jefferson Methodist Hospital in South Philadelphia set to fully reopen after power outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Jefferson Methodist Hospital in South Philadelphia is set to fully reopen several days after a major power outage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The reopening will happen at 7 a.m. Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The hospital was temporarily closed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/jefferson-methodist-hospital-er-open-170142796.html\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:after the power went out Tuesday;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;after the power went out Tuesday&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">after the power went out Tuesday<\/a>, likely caused by a flood in the basement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The outage prompted 120 patients to be evacuated and relocated to other facilities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Power was restored by Wednesday morning, but only the E.R. was open to walk-up patients. Anyone who needed to be admitted had to be taken to another hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;This swift reopening is a testament to the dedication, coordination, and rapid response of hundreds of Jefferson colleagues and partners who worked around-the-clock to maintain our patients&#8217; uninterrupted care,&#8221; said Joseph G. Cacchione, MD, CEO of Jefferson, in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jefferson Methodist Hospital in South Philadelphia is set to fully reopen several days after a major power outage.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[88594,69,71,70,9174,645],"class_list":["post-200040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-jefferson-methodist-hospital","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-power-outage","tag-south-philadelphia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}