As safe evacuations continued Saturday for dozens of patients who had been relying on backup generators at NYC Health + Hospitals/Woodhull in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Mayor Eric Adams stood firm in his belief that this storm-related electrical outage caused by flooding was handled in the best way possible.

“No serious injuries due to that electrical issue, no loss of life, a smooth transition,” said Adams at the hospital on Saturday. “But in order to fix the underlying damage, we need to fully turn off the hospital power.”

While none of the officials who spoke at a press briefing Saturday would disclose how many inches or feet of flooding was experienced by Woodhull Hospital, they said the flooding caused by Friday’s torrential downpour was significant enough to force the hospital to start the process of evacuating all of its patients to sister hospitals within the NYC Health + Hospitals system until power could be fully restored.

“The team had to work overnight finding beds, doing the patient census, making sure that we’re matching people with specific needs to other places in the hospital care system,” said Zachary Iscol, commissioner of the city Emergency Management Department.

Hospital officials say five patients from the ICU, as well as several people who were considered “laboring” patients, were among the first to be safely evacuated.

Councilmember Jennifer Gutiérrez lives a block from the Brooklyn hospital.

She mentioned that she works closely with its officials and tells me she gave birth to her daughter there nearly two years ago. Looking ahead, she is curious to find out if this disruption could have been avoided.

“What is the damage,” Gutiérrez asked. “Could this have been prevented? Is it just a result of the rain or was there a sequence of events before that? Maybe we could have stepped in, supported, helped fund. Those are the questions I know I want to ask. We never want this to be the case.”

Dr. Eric Wei of Woodhull Hospital confirmed that Con Edison had completed its work at the hospital.

According to Wei, the hospital is now looking to diagnose the extent of the damage to its electrical system.

Once that is done, he says they will have a better idea of when patients can be admitted to the Brooklyn hospital.