Very few I would guess.
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Sep 30, 2014 8:55 PM by Robbie Reynold - Missoula
Missoula hospital equipped to care for Ebola patients
MISSOULA — There are only four cities in the United States that have special facilities for handling patients with the Ebola virus: Bethesda, Maryland; Atlanta, Georgia; Omaha, Nebraska; and Saint Patrick Hospital in Missoula.
Saint Patrick has a specially-equipped biocontainment wing called the Care & Isolation Unit, and it helps care for patients with any kind of infectious disease, from measles to tuberculosis to Ebola.
Clinical nurse manager Kate Hurley recently got back from a trip to Sierra Leone in Africa, where she helped care for patients with the Ebola virus.
“The nice thing about that trip is we were actually able to work with these patients with our feet on the ground and really see how you really care for these patients in a high-stress, critical environment,” Hurley said.
This special unit has been operating since 2007, working in conjunction with Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton. The rooms have special equipment and ventilation systems for patients that have an infectious disease.
Tammy Powers, certified infection prevention coordinator, explained, “They have the anteroom and the patient care room that are all negative pressure. They’re HEPA-filtered and vented to the outside. Much of the infection control in this room is redundant so there’s backups.”
Hospital staff also get unique training.
Nurse Nicole Marks went through a training drill in the Care & Isolation Unit, which included suiting up for protection, along with properly entering and exiting the rooms.
Saint Patrick employees are happy that they’re prepared for whatever infectious disease may come their way.
“We never know when the next infectious disease will be emerging,” Powers said. “As we’ve seen with SARS and MERS, and now with Ebola, they’re just an airplane ride away.”