[kaila]

The protocols may be faulty, but you always err on the side of caution. It appears to me that this hospital does not care about their worker's safety.They cared about the $$$.

I think they wanted to take care of Duncan to beef up their prestige( that had already taken a hit due to the misdiagnosis), instead of sending him to one of the four hospitals skilled in treating Ebola.

When they made that decision to keep Duncan , they should have known that the PPE the nurses wore was inadequate. So, instead of going to Home Depot to obtain Tyvek suits, they forced the nurses to wear inadequate coverage, over their protests. Another cheap move on their part, as Tyvek suits cost $7-10 each, and they probably did not want to spend the money.

Then, in a real moment of being absolutely cheap, they assign an ICU level patient to a nurse who had 3 other patients. That is dangerous, for the other patients that the nurse had to take care of. I would never want to be in a hospital ICU as a patient with horrid staffing levels like that. All ICUs should have a nurse patient ratio of 1:1 or 1:2. This staffing ratio for ICU patients is negligence.

Then, they send the specimens through the tube system, contaminating the rest of the hospital.

I would never want to be a patient in this hospital at all.

[re_nortex]

It appears to me that this hospital does not care about their worker's safety. They cared about the $$$.

The hospital is run as a non-profit and the CEO is a DemonRAT contributor. So the problems are:

• The leader is sympathetic to marxism and hates the free market.
• There's no accountability to shareholders as with for-profit hospitals.
• Without a profit motive, there's no incentive to be excellent.

[Red in Blue PA]

I would never want to be a patient in this hospital at all.

Hate to break it to you but most hospitals are not prepared for ebola. Few would fare much better than this hospital.

[tcrlaf]

“think they wanted to take care of Duncan to beef up their prestige(”

More likely that they kept Duncan at the request of the Administration/CDC, which just before that had said that “Ebola was no big deal”, and “any U.S. Hospital could handle ebola!”, to prove their point.

And then it back-fired.

[WildHighlander57]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3217163/posts?page=6#6

Thanks, Kaila!

All y’all ping to this post!

Follow the $$$