SARANAC LAKE — Adirondack Medical Center will not divert ambulances away from its hospital here this week.

Last week, hospital officials had announced plans to re-route inbound ambulance traffic to other facilities on Monday and Thursday to facilitate electrical work at AMC-Saranac Lake. The work is part of an expansion project at the hospital.

However, Adirondack Health spokesman Matt Scollin said Monday that the ambulance diversion is no longer needed based on feedback from the state Department of Health.

“We are business as usual,” he said.

In order for National Grid to bring in power for the new, 37,000-square-foot surgical services wing, Scollin said power to the hospital has to be turned off. The facility has a generator and two backup generators, “but during the changeover times, we only have one generator backing up another generator and then battery (power),” Scollin said.

“We thought if we could divert, we don’t run the risk of having emergency trauma come in and have them run into the OR when we’re on generator. But we spoke to the Department of Health and they said we have all the necessary redundancies in place, so we’re going to proceed as normal.”

Scollin said the hospital has notified all the necessary EMS agencies that the ambulance diversion plan won’t be implemented.