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Highly-Rated D.C.-Area Hospital Turned Away Suspected Ebola Patient
CNS News ^ | October 21, 2014 - 2:14 PM | Terence P. Jeffrey

Posted on 10/21/2014 12:01:39 PM PDT by justlittleoleme

(CNSNews.com) - The Virginia Hospital Center—which is less than seven miles from the White House and is rated one of the nation’s Top 100 hospitals—turned away a suspected Ebola patient on Friday without examining her and without explaining to the fire department that brought her to the hospital in an ambulance why they would not admit her, according to the Arlington County Fire Department.

The department estimates that its ambulance waited outside the Virginia Hospital Center for 20 minutes before being directed to Inova Fairfax Hospital, Lt. Sarah-Maria Marchegiani, a spokesperson for the Arlington County Fire Department told CNSNews.com.

The patient in question, it turned out, did not have Ebola.

In an Oct. 3 story that the Virginia Hospital Center linked to its own website, WUSA Channel 9 reported that the hospital suggested it was prepared to deal with an Ebola case.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: ebola; hospital
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To: justlittleoleme

Of course, there aren’t 3 hospitals in the country prepared to deal with a virus that requires level 4 containment, much less at a cost of 1/2 million per patient to be dumped on taxpayers or the hospitals. USAMRIID worked on development of this virus for use as a bioweapon for good reason, but they did it under level 4 containment.


21 posted on 10/21/2014 2:04:24 PM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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To: Neoliberalnot

Not to mention shutting down the ER and basically the whole hospital for weeks


22 posted on 10/21/2014 2:05:28 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: justlittleoleme

Take her to St. Elsewhere.

Hey, wasn’t that the Mooch’s job? Turning away patients? I’d like to apply for one a those jobs. $300k a year, I’ll pay for my own hazmat suit. But I’m not marryin’ the gay guy.


23 posted on 10/21/2014 2:07:17 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: ansel12

Medieval is an understatement. Even after having some time with the bubonic plague. Locations in Europe figured out enough to not let visitors into town to protect their territory from the plague.


24 posted on 10/21/2014 7:32:05 PM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: armydoc
EMTALA violation.

Couldn't have been. She didn't need stabilization or much of anything else.

25 posted on 10/21/2014 7:35:34 PM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc OÂ’Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: Morpheus2009

The primitive part was that one of our most advanced hospitals refused to treat a patient.


26 posted on 10/21/2014 8:46:58 PM PDT by ansel12 ( LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nationÂ’s electorate for democrats)
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To: steve86
Couldn't have been. She didn't need stabilization or much of anything else.

EMTALA requires a Screening Medical Examination. By regulation, this cannot be done in the ambulance.
27 posted on 10/22/2014 3:29:47 AM PDT by armydoc
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To: armydoc

She got one — at the other facility. Diverts aren’t uncommon.


28 posted on 10/22/2014 10:58:47 AM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc OÂ’Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: 2ndreconmarine; Fitzcarraldo; Covenantor; Mother Abigail; EBH; Dog Gone; ...
Ping...

A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread

29 posted on 10/22/2014 5:10:36 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: steve86

Nope. Once the ambulance was on hospital property (actually within 250 yards of it), an MSE is mandated.


31 posted on 10/22/2014 6:32:07 PM PDT by armydoc
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To: justlittleoleme; neverdem; ProtectOurFreedom; Mother Abigail; EBH; vetvetdoug; Smokin' Joe; ...
Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

32 posted on 10/22/2014 8:46:27 PM PDT by null and void ("Agoraphobia": fear of the marketplace; "AlGoreaphobia": fear of the marketplace of ideas.)
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