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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBaylor, TX: Possible Ebola Patient at Baylor Hospital in Texas Has Positive Screening
A patient presented at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas Thursday evening reporting Ebola symptoms and indicated contact with someone with the disease. The patient was transferred within hours to Texas Health Presbyterian as directed by the Dallas County Health Department, it said.
Upon arrival to Baylor University Medical Center, the patient entered the hospital through a private entrance. That entrance was then closed, and the patient was immediately isolated. While again, there is no confirmation this patient is infected with Ebola, we are following all CDC disease-containment guidelines.
~snip~
Baylor is one of three hospitals that set up special Ebola isolation units earlier this month, along with Childrens Medical Center Dallas and Parkland Memorial Hospital.
Its unclear why the patient was transferred from Baylor to Texas Health, especially considering the latter admittedly botched the care of Thomas Eric Duncan by allowing two nurses to contract Ebola from the Liberian before he died.
Story developing
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/1025654-baylor-tx-possible-ebola-patient-at-baylor-hospital-in-texas-has-positive-screening/
hollysmom
(5,946 posts)Little Star
(17,055 posts)Baylor is one of the hospitals that has set up special Ebola isolation units, so this is kinda curious.
B2G
(9,766 posts)That's what I don't get.
Little Star
(17,055 posts)HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)THP's reputation isn't good, but it's already got the problem.
elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)one here in Houston...
Puzzledtraveller
(5,937 posts)nooooo, the anxiety alone would kill me.
dilby
(2,273 posts)They had a huge failure and can't afford another one, they will be providing the best healthcare with minimal mistakes from this point on.
hollysmom
(5,946 posts)B2G
(9,766 posts)They'd have to drug me to get me into the ambulance to go there.
dilby
(2,273 posts)It's like an Airline after one of their plane crashes, they will go through all the extra precaution and measures to make sure it does not happen again. If that hospital makes another mistake they might as well put a for sale sign out front and shutter the doors.
underpants
(182,868 posts)Generic Brad
(14,275 posts)We need to build a massive fence around Texas to keep them all in. It has the added benefit of keeping illegal aliens and blue staters out . If this were any other state, Rick Perry would like that idea.
Earth_First
(14,910 posts)The headline reads: "positive screening" yet the article claims: "there is no confirmation this patient is infected with Ebola"
So the triage experience was positive?
What are we filling out comment cards here?!
This is poor editing on behalf of The Epoch Times...
B2G
(9,766 posts)possibly other symptoms and answered they had either travelled to W. Africa or had been in contact with someone who had.
That's how it's supposed to work.
I agree, the headline sucks.
City Lights
(25,171 posts)Im told a number of patients screening positive but testing negative for #Ebola Baylor patient transferred out of caution, he said.
Zorra
(27,670 posts)HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)Earth_First
(14,910 posts)It makes sense now...
karynnj
(59,504 posts)If the test is positive, then there would be confirmation.
uppityperson
(115,678 posts)"triggered a positive on a verbal screening questionnaire"
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Just sayin'.
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HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)City Lights
(25,171 posts)City Lights
(25,171 posts)A Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas spokesman said Friday that a patient called ahead and alerted the hospital that she might potentially have Ebola. The patient drove her own car, which is now in quarantine, out of an abundance of caution, the spokesman said.
The spokesman said the patient screened positive for the virus. That means the person had some symptoms such as a fever and likely either had contact with someone who has Ebola or they have visited West Africa recently.
But, blood tests have not confirmed whether the patient has Ebola.
The patient went into the hospital through a private entrance Thursday and was immediately put in an isolation room, the spokesman said.
Health care workers monitored the patient until the she was later transferred late Thursday to Presbyterian. Though the patient said she was on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention watch list, when hospital officials called the CDC, the woman was not on the watch list.
The spokesman said, generally, there have been other patients who have screened positive without testing positive.
http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/2014/10/hospital-workers-who-cared-for-countrys-first-ebola-patient-asked-to-limit-movement.html/
Little Star
(17,055 posts)Baylor says she isn't?
City Lights
(25,171 posts)about this. Hope we get definitive answers.
B2G
(9,766 posts)said she was on the CDC watch list and that she had symptoms, why tell her to drive to the hospital?
Pick her up in a damned ambulance and put her in a hazmat suit.
Sheesh.
Skittles
(153,185 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)with 1500 other people ...
Skittles
(153,185 posts)yeah, it all seems so pitiful but not surprising
but not really all that surprising sums it up for me, too.
City Lights
(25,171 posts)KMOD
(7,906 posts)so perhaps this individual has been treated and released.
http://www.kktv.com/home/headlines/New-Dallas-Patient-Screened-Positive-For-Ebola-In-Questionnaire-Testing-Not-Confirmed-279589412.html
City Lights
(25,171 posts)TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)but arranged his/her arrival beforehand, it seems. This tells me it's a health care worker, law enforcement, or someone who anticipated the possibility of the disease and thought this through.
morningfog
(18,115 posts)with the disease. Probably another health worker who treated Duncan. Hopefully a false alarm.
Logical
(22,457 posts)Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)There has got to be some isolated place to take these patience. Aren't there any sealed bomb shelters in Texas? Abandoned military bases maybe. We need to contain this shit and fast.
morningfog
(18,115 posts)Anywhere but in a hospital. While there is no excuse for hospital workers to be infected, it is (as of now) contained in that sense.
upaloopa
(11,417 posts)patient and where is that patient? More Ebola horse shit my guess.
morningfog
(18,115 posts)Little Star
(17,055 posts)Dr. Wendy Chung. She spent time at Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncans beside.
upaloopa
(11,417 posts)hysteria.
The way the story is presented here it is just a person walking in off the street
morningfog
(18,115 posts)I hope she tests negative.
B2G
(9,766 posts)Little Star
(17,055 posts)B2G
(9,766 posts)that she's the one who went to Bayler today.
KMOD
(7,906 posts)But, blood tests have not confirmed whether the patient has Ebola. Later Friday a Presbyterian hospital spokesperson said the patient was determined to be low risk and wanted to leave the hospital.
According to Presbyterian, the CDC and the state health department were advised and did not feet it was necessary to have the woman detained.
http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/2014/10/hospital-workers-who-cared-for-countrys-first-ebola-patient-asked-to-limit-movement.html/
Tarheel_Dem
(31,239 posts)morningfog
(18,115 posts)City Lights
(25,171 posts)Thursday evening, a patient reporting Ebola symptoms was transferred from Baylor University Medical Center to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas. The patient was placed in isolation at Texas Health Dallas and evaluated with all appropriate precautions. The patient was determined to be low risk and wanted to leave the hospital. The CDC and Texas Department of State Health Services were advised of this and did not feel it was necessary to have her detained.
http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2014/10/17/new-patient-screened-positive-for-ebola-at-baylor-hospital-testing-not-confirmed/