“Any violations of protocols would be the fault of the hospital and not the CDC.”
The Liability Lawsuit dance for this is just beginning.
Jesse already wants his part of any potential payday for the Duncan family, and if she lives, the Pham girl will never have to work again.
We saw over the weekend the Harvard clinic isolate a potential Ebola case OUTSIDE of the clinic, rather than bring him back in, and hold him there until he was transferred to another facility.
How long until insurers start telling the hospitals that they aren’t covering liability for Ebola?
When that happens, things will get REALLY BAD, REALLY FAST. Most hospitals won’t dare to touch them for liability fears. As long as they sick and die OUTSIDE the Hospital, they aren’t on the hook for it.
That likely explains why they came out today, wanting to establish an Ebola-Only hospital in each state. They SAY it is so the protocols will be easier to follow. IMHO, it is to prevent a liability-induced healthcare meltdown.
Very interesting take on this.
The Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital will have a line of people wanting to sue, and if it is established the hospital did not follow CDC protocols or any guidelines as the nurses claim, many of those people will win big settlements.
At this point all the CDC and the Feds can do is create Ebola treatment protocols, but they cannot force the hospitals to follow the protocols.
It is an attempt to keep U.S. hospitals "clean" so to speak, and prevent further infection of staff and other patients. The problem is that suspected cases will still go to their local ERs, so they will have to set up a pre-triage screening and isolation outside the building.
In many states, EMS is mostly to completely volunteer.
Who ya gonna call?
Private vehicles? (stop here, I gotta... I wanna... I'm hungry/thirsty...) Too much infection potential.
If you are in the city with the center... you might get treatment. If not, the further away you are, the less likely you will be treated. (IOW, you're on your own if you get infected.)
Some medical professionals have been advocating separate, state-level Ebola facilities for some time—saying that regular facilities wouldn’t be able to stop contamination within.