Nebraska Medical Center to treat Boston doctor with Ebola

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Omaha World Herald

University of Nebraska Medical Center Chancellor Jeffrey Gold said during a Thursday press conference that the Nebraska Medical Center will treat a patient with Ebola virus.

The patient is Dr. Rick Sacra, a missionary who was serving in Liberia, according to SIM, a North Carolina-based charity.

He is expected to arrive Friday morning at the med center's Nebraska Biocontainment Patient Care Unit, Gold said.

Gold said the med center was contacted 48 hours ago by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services about treating an Ebola patient.

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State Department assesses Nebraska Medical Center's ability to handle Ebola virus cases: http://www.livewellnebraska.com/health/state-department-assesses-nebraska-medical-center-s-ability-to-handle/article_ab7eb310-19b3-11e4-ab6e-0017a43b2370.html

[liberal N proud]

1. why wouldn't they use the same hospital as the others?

Did the Atlanta hospital not accept their insurance?

[another_liberal]

4. My reply #3 below asks the same question.

Use of several widely scattered hospitals suggests more chances for a mistake or accident to happen somewhere, or am I wrong about that?

[busterbrown]

2. WTF... The vortex of anti-science has an institution...

which actually believes that GOD can’t cure everything?

But then again the MDs? Probably bitch about medicare payments..

[another_liberal]

3. I wonder what the logic is behind scattering these patients to different hospitals?

The practice of sending them to a number of locations around the country would seem to increase chances of an infection?

[magical thyme]

5. There are 4 hospitals that set up specially designed facilities to treat researchers

in the event of accidental exposures while working with level 4 biohazards. Their staffs have trained for years to do this, and they all have similar facilities to Emory. Therefore, the risk and the care level will be pretty much identical.

Many of the healthcare workers who cared for Dr. Brantly and Mrs. Writebol volunteered to postpone their scheduled vacations to do so. It is very possible that they are taking well-deserved vacations right now.

It also makes sense to spread the work around those facilities, so none gets burned out and they each get to practice what they've been training for.

[Marrah_G]

6. spot on