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Health workers on a federal disaster relief team have set up a tent emergency room outside Sarasota Memorial Hospital in Venice. They're helping take the pressure off, so hospital staff can focus on treating the sickest patients.

Hundreds of medical centers along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts face serious risks from even relatively weak storms as climate change accelerates sea-level rise — not to mention big ones like Category 4 Hurricane Ian.

Residents from nine facilities still shuttered are staying in nearby skilled nursing centers, where staff are working to make them feel comfortable and monitor for "transfer trauma."

Experts say helping people who suffered losses during the storm meet basic needs like food and shelter reduces stress, while talking about emotions builds resiliency.

The center responded to more than triple its yearly average number of 211 calls from Charlotte County in just one week.

A pulmonologist warns about chemicals, oil, gas and other dangerous substances in floodwaters created by Hurricane Ian.

In total, 67 babies had to be evacuated from Southwest Florida hospitals to regions throughout the state. All Children's in St. Petersburg has 21 of them.

Talking with neighbors is among the ways to help ease anxiety after a disaster, says Reese VanCamp of Elite DNA Behavioral Health in Fort Myers.

Some required rescues, while others hunkered down while depending on generator power as crews sort through the damage.

With soaring temperatures comes high heat that could prove a danger to vulnerable people like young children, the elderly and those exposed to the outdoors for long periods of the day.