Riverview Hospital In Red Bank Continues AC Repairs

RED BANK, NJ — As of late Wednesday night and early Thursday morning, one of two air conditioning units at Riverview Medical Center in Red Bank have been repaired, restoring the air conditioning to both the emergency room and ICU floors, Capt. Michael Frazee of the Red Bank Police Department said Thursday.

Work is being performed on the second unit and should be back to normal operations by late Thursday afternoon, he said. The hospital continues to remain "on divert," he added. A hospital spokesperson was not immediately available to update the situation.

Some of the air conditioning units at Riverview Medical Center stopped working Wednesday morning — in the middle of summer's most severe heat wave. Patients were relocated to other hospitals, according to a hospital spokesman. Patients were moved to parts of the hospital that did have air conditioning as well as to other nearby hospitals.

Monmouth County Sheriff's officers also responded and set up six emergency air conditioning units at the hospital.

Riverview Medical Center is a 468-bed hospital located on the Navesink River in Red Bank. It is owned by Hackensack Meridian Health network, the largest hospital system in the state.

It was not yet known what caused the air conditioning units to break.

The office of Monmouth County Sheriff Shaun Golden posted photos to Facebook of all the agencies responding to Riverview Wednesday morning, including the NJ EMS Task Force, Monmouth County EMS Coordinators and Red Bank and Neptune Twp. OEM. The post said Monmouth and Middlesex County Medical Ambulance Buses were on scene to assist.