Posted on 08/19/2014 8:23:09 PM PDT by CorporateStepsister
A Sacramento hospital announced Tuesday that one of its patients may have Ebola.
Kaiser Permanente South Sacramento Medical Center said in a release the patient is isolated.
The hospital's Dr. Stephen Parodi said in the release 'We are working with the Sacramento County Division of Public Health regarding a patient admitted to the Kaiser Permanente South Sacramento Medical Center who may have been exposed to the Ebola virus. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will be testing blood samples to rule out the presence of the virus.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Sorry if I came across as correcting you. I didn’t mean to. Rather, I saw an opportunity to get on my soapbox about HIPAA. It was not directed at you in any way.
NYC is probably the best prepared major city in the world for these kinds of disasters.
It's a tough neighborhood. NYC might perish anyway. But it will go down snarling inch by bloody inch.
IMO, not yet, but it will be. That is why DOD has been working on a vaccine since 2004.
Is that a “what if” story? Or what actually happened?
LOL.
I think maybe two or 3 freepers might not know you are referring to Hopkins.
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From the excerpt: 'We are working with the Sacramento County Division of Public Health regarding a patient admitted to the Kaiser Permanente South Sacramento Medical Center who may have been exposed to the Ebola virus.
From another article: "Officials believe that a woman in New Mexico and an unidentified patient in California are unlikely to have the deadly virus, but the two individuals are being isolated and tested out of an abundance of caution."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2014/08/20/two-u-s-patients-are-in-isolation-awaiting-ebola-test-results/
Suspicions might be popping up, but besides the docs we brought home from Africa, there are zero confirmed reports of ebola in the US related to this current outbreak.
Thanks for the ping.
It can spread easily and lives outside of the body for a while.
Been around for decades I think.
No offense taken FRiend!
It was a good point. Indeed, the very reason for the law was to make records more “portable”. This allowed (as you probably know) an opening for the HITECH act to further tighten regulations and make record keeping for average doctor offices unweildy to say the least.
Another gift of Obamacare.
The subject of one of my papers in my Master's Degree. There are 1 or 2 good things in Obamacare, but such as encouraging the adoption of EMRs. But the way they did it... wow. Such incompetence!
Yes, I’m talking about in person, not over the phone. And I don’t stand for that.
My husband had a stroke, and I’m his caregiver. He is always with me, so when I say I’m asking for his records, actually he is there asking for the records, and I’m just handling the details.
The latest episode took place at the VA. DH had just been examined by a nurse there. We requested she forward the records of the exam to his primary care manager, who is not part of the VA. I do that at every doctor appointment, and they always tell me who in their office handles that, and they make sure the records are available to that person.
Hubby has multiple health issues, and sees so many doctors, I’m vigilant about all of his records being sent to his PCM. It’s no big deal, and it makes everything go smoothly. Usually. But not this time.
The nurse told me because of HIPAA, she couldn’t forward his records without a request from his PCM. I told her we routinely have all records sent to his PCM. We fill out a release, DH signs it, and the records get sent to his PCM. She said all the doctors who comply with that request are in violation of HIPAA.
She also said we had to make the request through his PCM, and we had to sign the request in the presence of his PCM, about 80 miles away from the VA, about 60 miles from our home. Seriously. She wanted us to drive 80 miles to the PCM’s office, sign a release, and drive 60 miles back home. When I put it to her that way, she suggested I wait until his next appointment with the PCM, and sign all the release forms for the records at the VA and other doctor’s offices at that time.
I started to explain that his PCM needed to have all the records in advance of his next visit, but I stopped myself. That’s the point when I realized she is a moron, and I stopped trying to reason with her.
When we left her office, I stopped at the front desk, requested they forward the records, signed the release, and left. Next appointment with his PCM I’ll check to see if they got the records.
Crazy absolutely nuts. That nurse if she knew HIPPA at all should know the patient himself (or his authorized caregiver) has the right to his medical records at any time. You can literally walk out of there with a copy if you wanted.
Crazy. Yet another gift of burdensome regulation.
And of course being a VA employee she can never be fired for such incompetence. All she has to do is say she was worried about violating HIPPA and she’s off the hook. Which is like saying she’s worried the sun will explode.
Did I?
Doesn’t sound like something I would say.
I might have said this is as exciting as the bird flu of 2007 and the hysterics are amusing.
... watch what happens in west point. A huge slum, bldg to bldg, one mans exterior is another mans 4th wall. No running water, no sanitary. Once the disease spreads there it will be like wild fire. 100,000 carriers delivering and waiting for death.
It will be bad.
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ebola-nigerian-doctor-who-detected-first-case-country-dies-1461891
Google new for UNMH ebola.
Thanks for the ping!
“Is that a “what if” story? Or what actually happened?”
I refer you to the following; somehow I didn’t keep a copy of the article about the hysterical brother-in-law.
Since that article, the doctor who treated him in Nigeria also has died. The following article proclaims her a hero for refusing to allow Patrick Sawyer to leave the Nigerian hospital where he’d been admitted after arriving ill:
This article states that the Liberian government knew Sawyer was contagious before he left for the conference but arranged his travel anyway:
http://allafrica.com/stories/201408120233.html?viewall=1
This article refers to Sawyer’s mother in Philadelphia who also lost her daughter who infected her husband and Sawyer (the “kids” or “children” in the title are the adults Sawyer and his sister). Please note that her claim that no one knew the nurse/sister/daughter had Ebola is erroneous; see prior links:
http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Philadelphia-Woman-Loses-2-Children-to-Ebola-Virus-270633421.html
Is it airborn ? or is it spread by contact ?
They say it is spread by direct contact with the bodily fluids (sweat, blood, urine, feces, semen, saliva, tears) of an infected person, or their body after their death. But there is some evidence that it can be spread without such direct contact. The Ebola Reston virus seems to have spread in some other way, probably airborne, but there is no proof (at least published proof) that it can be spread through the air. Nevertheless, notice that the researchers and physicians all take the most drastic precautions against such a possibility, and we should, too.
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