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In reply to the discussion: My Dallas Ebola Hospital Theory - ENJOY! [View all]KoKo
(84,711 posts)16. Reasonable theory.
It's possible that without a Staff Meeting Slert that relying on electronic transfer wasn't effective, also. Maybe going back to posting information for staff in crucial places patient check in, nursing stations(like the old days) hospital break rooms, cafeteria might get more attention than electronic transfer.
Even putting a notice at the check in window of the EMR for patients to disclose if they'd traveled recently and where might be helpful.
Not everyone in hospital staff watches CNN to get hysterical over EBOLA in America. So, maybe the CDC should have put out immediate alerts to every hospital to be aware of patients who have traveled recently. Wasn't this kind of alert the job of the U.S. Surgeon General (who hasn't been appointed because of obstruction) in the past? Maybe that's where the real blame lies.
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You left out the druggies that routinely arrive having extreme pain that over
appleannie1
Oct 2014
#1
Yeah. They need to look at how many other hospitals had protocols in place that would have flagged
brewens
Oct 2014
#6
It was a software glitch. The travel info was not transferred from admissions to doctors.
librechik
Oct 2014
#9
that's a poor excuse. This has been a blaring top story for fucking weeks and weeks
cali
Oct 2014
#10
You are correct. Just that correctness does not generate the desired fear the media desire.
Fred Sanders
Oct 2014
#17
Right-- he told them he had come from Liberia. And I don't mean to defend the hospital, but...
Gidney N Cloyd
Oct 2014
#58
Knowing to protect themselves from Hepatitis from any number of persons coming in to the ER,
DhhD
Oct 2014
#22
The insurance companies broke our health care system out of sheer greed.
mountain grammy
Oct 2014
#39
CDC has been providing hospitals and expecially ERs with detailed guidance on this whole ebola thing
kestrel91316
Oct 2014
#43
Or, the triage nurse could've received a memo about patients from "West Africa"...
Barack_America
Oct 2014
#45