Posted on 12/02/2014 12:35:52 PM PST by bgill
Health officials have designated 35 hospitals across the country as Ebola treatment centers.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released the list of hospitals on Tuesday. Most are clustered in metropolitan areas like New York City, San Francisco, Minneapolis and Washington D.C.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/hcp/current-treatment-centers.html
This list will be updated weekly. The 35 hospitals with Ebola treatment centers as of 12/2/2014 are: •Kaiser Oakland Medical Center; Oakland, California
•Kaiser South Sacramento Medical Center; Sacramento, California
•University of California Davis Medical Center; Sacramento, California
•University of California San Francisco Medical Center; San Francisco, California
•Emory University Hospital; Atlanta, Georgia
•Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago; Chicago, Illinois
•Northwestern Memorial Hospital; Chicago, Illinois
•Rush University Medical Center; Chicago, Illinois
•University of Chicago Medical Center; Chicago, Illinois
•Johns Hopkins Hospital; Baltimore, Maryland
•University of Maryland Medical Center; Baltimore, Maryland
•National Institutes of Health Clinical Center; Bethesda, Maryland
•Allina Health’s Unity Hospital; Fridley, Minnesota
•Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota - Saint Paul campus; St. Paul, Minnesota
•Mayo Clinic Hospital - Rochester, Saint Marys Campus; Rochester, Minnesota
•University of Minnesota Medical Center, West Bank campus, Minneapolis, Minnesota
•Nebraska Medicine - Nebraska Medical Center; Omaha, Nebraska
•North Shore System LIJ/Glen Cove Hospital; Glen Cove, New York
•Montefiore Health System; New York City, New York
•New York-Presbyterian/Allen Hospital; New York City, New York
•NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation/HHC Bellevue Hospital Center; New York City, New York
•Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital; New Brunswick, New Jersey
•The Mount Sinai Hospital; New York City, New York
•Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
•Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
•University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston; Galveston, Texas
•Methodist Hospital System in collaboration with Parkland Hospital System and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center; Richardson, Texas
•University of Virginia Medical Center; Charlottesville, Virginia
•Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center; Richmond, Virginia
•Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; Milwaukee, Wisconsin
•Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin – Froedtert Hospital, Milwaukee; Milwaukee, Wisconsin
•UW Health – University of Wisconsin Hospital, Madison, and the American Family Children’s Hospital, Madison; Madison, Wisconsin
•MedStar Washington Hospital Center; Washington, D.C.
•Children's National Medical Center; Washington, D.C.
•George Washington University Hospital; Washington, D.C.
Looks like Duncan’s hospital doesn’t want anything to do with the disease.
Because your statement is nonsense, that isn't describing what is going on at all.
Treatment centers aren't classified as "level 4" but research labs can be, the 4 super isolation units that America has were created for treating primarily the researchers in those labs that could become infected from things worse than Ebola, this story is about 35 hospitals designated to treat Ebola patients.
So I see we have Moonbeam and his cohorts for 4 of them. And the wonderful Mayor of Sacramento for 2.
That was not clear enough writing to make out, what did it say?
Not one hospital south of Sacramento in California.
Heck, we’re only talking about 25 million or so...
“This list will be updated weekly. The 35 hospitals with Ebola treatment centers as of 12/2/2014 are:”
Mu concern about this isn’t about now as much as it is about the long term preparedness for bio threats and bioterrorism.
My hope is that all this won’t disappear in a year or two and that there will remain the capability to deal with a large simultaneous national threat in 10 or 15, or 20 years from now, that through periodic refresher training and checking equipment and supplies, that we could remain ready to always get up to speed quickly.
It was shocking to see how flat footed and unready the system was caught this time.
There were 4 in California, 2 in Sacramento. I was blaming the Governor and Mayor of Sacramento.
Hmmm, why so many?
Blaming them for what, the hospitals are the ones earning the designation, there will be more to come.
The more that can meet a standard, the better, I hope the number grows and that the capabilities remain, even when this story fades away.
One: Bureaucratic nest-feathering.
Two: They plan to bring significant numbers of West African nationals to the US for treatment.
I have several concerns.
Number one, our borders are our first defense. Those were wide open. Even at the airports, these people just walked right through.
Second, once the disease was here, we did nothing to stop more infected people landing on U. S. soil.
Third, as you state, we weren’t ready. The CDC, the NIH, and the Department of Health and Human services should have had a plan in place. There should have been preparedness drills.
So yes, I agree with you on the third count here.
I also agree that we will have problems in the future.
What galls me, is that the same lowered defenses at the border will bring it all on too. That and the simple fact that we are allowing terrorists to relocate here at will.
That’s my perception.
The biggest shock was not that Ebola made it to America, but that our hospitals were found to be so unprepared to treat the patients.
One guy wreaked havoc in a Dallas hospital.
I doubt that ebola is the only threat of this type that could have caught us unprepared.
I like this good news about hospitals catching up to being able to treat these type of threats.
Looks like they left out us “Southerners”...(there is one in Texas and one in GA.)
Just last night I had a conversation with an ICU nurse at a local hospital. They have received Ebola training and also have a “command center” and protocol in place in case an Ebola patient should be admitted.
I asked her if they would have to shut down the entire ICU as they did in Texas when treating Duncan. She told me they had re-engineered the ICU and changed the air filtering system, so that 2 ICU rooms have their own recycling air (I have no idea what the details of this are.)
Also they had full hazmat training, including taking off gowns, etc. They apray them in a bleach solution before they even begin to take the suits off. Triple gloved, at which point I asked her how to they’d insert an IV with 3 pairs of gloves on...feeling for a vein would be hard.
So even though it’s obvious this hospital isn’t on th elist, at least they’re preparing the staff to take care of a patient until they can be transported to one of the “approved center.”
UTMB at Galveston already had a Level 4 lab so they probably were already set up with a bed. Notice the list doesn’t show a bed count. Parkland and UT Soutwestern didn’t have such a head start.
Look at the designated hospitals’ locations in relationship with the border. The ones in CA are in northern CA, not near the border. There are zero in Arizona and New Mexico. In TX, the closest to the border would be Galveston. It’s also interesting that if you’re in a politically red state, you’re pretty much on your own.
I guess FL (God’s waiting room) doesn’t need one.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
Look at the distribution in ‘flyover country’.
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