Per the article:
Officials say CHOP created an "Internal Ebola Task Force" in August that has been intensively planning since then to address all of the processes that are necessary to safely care for a patient while maintaining normal clinical care for other patients.
To date the Task Force has:
Instituted a screening protocol to identify at-risk patients in the Emergency Department and through the Ambulatory Care phone triage system;
Ensured that proper personal protective equipment (PPE) is available;
Continued to employ ongoing staff training on the proper and reliable use of PPE.
http://6abc.com/health/chop-selected-to-possibly-provide-care-for-children-with-ebola/353779/"]/"]http://6abc.com/health/chop-selected-to-possibly-provide-care-for-children-with-ebola/353779/
I actually feel pretty confident of CHOP's ability to handle an Ebola patient. My children are seen there for various conditions and quite frankly, they don't mess around. They treat serious conditions on a regular basis, genetic conditions and other awful things that leave quite a bit of their inpatient population immunocomprised. During regional outbreaks of flu, of high levels of RSV, etc, they implement a strict visitor policy barring children under a certain age from even entering the hospital as a visitor, and limit minors to one per patient, and this is just under normal operating conditions. I just hope they never have a chance to test themselves.
Officials say CHOP created an "Internal Ebola Task Force" in August that has been intensively planning since then to address all of the processes that are necessary to safely care for a patient while maintaining normal clinical care for other patients.
To date the Task Force has:
Instituted a screening protocol to identify at-risk patients in the Emergency Department and through the Ambulatory Care phone triage system;
Ensured that proper personal protective equipment (PPE) is available;
Continued to employ ongoing staff training on the proper and reliable use of PPE.
http://6abc.com/health/chop-selected-to-possibly-provide-care-for-children-with-ebola/353779/"]/"]http://6abc.com/health/chop-selected-to-possibly-provide-care-for-children-with-ebola/353779/
I actually feel pretty confident of CHOP's ability to handle an Ebola patient. My children are seen there for various conditions and quite frankly, they don't mess around. They treat serious conditions on a regular basis, genetic conditions and other awful things that leave quite a bit of their inpatient population immunocomprised. During regional outbreaks of flu, of high levels of RSV, etc, they implement a strict visitor policy barring children under a certain age from even entering the hospital as a visitor, and limit minors to one per patient, and this is just under normal operating conditions. I just hope they never have a chance to test themselves.