I commend Ohio's response thus far. I think they've been quick to act and transparent with information. Below is an interesting article. Unless they are planning to put more than one ebola patient in a room - I don't know where Ohio State University's Wexner Medical Center will put the other 3 patients?
Central Ohio hospitals plan joint response to any Ebola cases
Under an agreement that starts with central Ohio’s first five Ebola cases going to Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center, Franklin County hospitals will work together to care for patients with the deadly virus should it reach here...
...The hospitals’ chief medical officers agreed to designate one adult hospital in each system as an Ebola “cohort” hospital, said Jeff Klingler, the Central Ohio Hospital Council’s president and CEO.
After the first patients go to Wexner Medical Center, the next five would go to an OhioHealth hospital. The five after that would go to a hospital in the Mount Carmel Health System.
Should the number of cases reach 16, the rotation would start again, Klingler said. All pediatric patients would go to Nationwide Children’s Hospital...
...Thomas said more than five patients would cause too much strain on one hospital, and knowing in advance where they will go and in what order is valuable for the hospital systems and potential patients.
All three adult hospital systems would be able to provide the same resources (including isolation rooms and equipment) and provide comparably trained personnel to care for patients, Thomas said.
He said Ohio State has about 90 people specially trained for Ebola and two rooms dedicated to cases should they emerge...
...But if the hospitals receive a positive lab result from the Ohio Department of Health (tests should take four to six hours), the patient would be taken to the appropriate hospital according to the central Ohio hospitals’ agreement, Klingler said. Smaller hospitals outside the county will be asked to follow the same protocol, he said....
http://www.dispatch.com/content/sto...s-plan-joint-response-to-any-ebola-cases.html
Central Ohio hospitals plan joint response to any Ebola cases
Under an agreement that starts with central Ohio’s first five Ebola cases going to Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center, Franklin County hospitals will work together to care for patients with the deadly virus should it reach here...
...The hospitals’ chief medical officers agreed to designate one adult hospital in each system as an Ebola “cohort” hospital, said Jeff Klingler, the Central Ohio Hospital Council’s president and CEO.
After the first patients go to Wexner Medical Center, the next five would go to an OhioHealth hospital. The five after that would go to a hospital in the Mount Carmel Health System.
Should the number of cases reach 16, the rotation would start again, Klingler said. All pediatric patients would go to Nationwide Children’s Hospital...
...Thomas said more than five patients would cause too much strain on one hospital, and knowing in advance where they will go and in what order is valuable for the hospital systems and potential patients.
All three adult hospital systems would be able to provide the same resources (including isolation rooms and equipment) and provide comparably trained personnel to care for patients, Thomas said.
He said Ohio State has about 90 people specially trained for Ebola and two rooms dedicated to cases should they emerge...
...But if the hospitals receive a positive lab result from the Ohio Department of Health (tests should take four to six hours), the patient would be taken to the appropriate hospital according to the central Ohio hospitals’ agreement, Klingler said. Smaller hospitals outside the county will be asked to follow the same protocol, he said....
http://www.dispatch.com/content/sto...s-plan-joint-response-to-any-ebola-cases.html