With more than 300,000 people already without power across Florida because of Hurricane Matthew’s powerful winds and torrential rains, hospitals up and down the Atlantic coast in the Sunshine State are implementing emergency measures — and, in some cases, evacuating patients.

ABC News reported that at least two hospitals in Jacksonville, Florida, have evacuated patients, according to a hospital spokeswoman. Baptist Nassau Hospital and Baptist Beaches Hospital in Jacksonville finished evacuating patients to nearby hospitals on Friday morning.

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Cindy Hamilton, a spokeswoman for Baptist Health System, told the news outlet three Baptist hospitals would remain open, including a children’s hospital and three free-standing emergency rooms, to deal with people injured during the storm. Members of the hospital’s Planned Emergency Response Team, including doctors and other medical staff, have volunteered to treat patients during the storm and immediately afterward. “One team stays before and during the storm,” Hamilton said, noting that when the first team comes home, “then the B team comes in” to relieve them.

Hamilton said the B team can stay at a shelter or at their homes if those are not in evacuated areas. “They get their home ready [for the storm] and as soon as they hear the word, they come back in,” she told ABC News.

The western eye wall of Matthew brushed by Cape Canaveral, home of the Kennedy Space Center, producing 115-mph wind gusts there at around 5:30 a.m. on Friday, said ABC News.

At the University of Miami Hospital, CEO Michael Gittelman said the hospital had 290 patients in a building that has the potential to treat patients in 600 hospital beds.

The National Hurricane Center downgraded Matthew to a Category 3 storm overnight, but warned that the “eye of [the] extremely dangerous” storm was approaching Florida. In a 5 a.m. bulletin, it said the hurricane was “moving parallel to and just offshore” of Florida’s east coast, NBC News reported.

At least 271 deaths have been reported in Haiti as a result of Hurricane Matthew, according to CNN. The number rose drastically to some 470 victims, Reuters reported.