[bgill]

Makes you wonder why the CDC spend billions and years on building just a handful of Level 4 Ebola treatment centers when they now, in a matter of weeks, are able to create 30 more and will be adding to those weekly. Either way, it won't matter much since the PPE supplies are back ordered.

http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/hcp/current-treatment-centers.html

This list will be updated weekly. The 35 hospitals with Ebola treatment centers as of 12/2/2014 are: •Kaiser Oakland Medical Center; Oakland, California

•Kaiser South Sacramento Medical Center; Sacramento, California

•University of California Davis Medical Center; Sacramento, California

•University of California San Francisco Medical Center; San Francisco, California

•Emory University Hospital; Atlanta, Georgia

•Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago; Chicago, Illinois

•Northwestern Memorial Hospital; Chicago, Illinois

•Rush University Medical Center; Chicago, Illinois

•University of Chicago Medical Center; Chicago, Illinois

•Johns Hopkins Hospital; Baltimore, Maryland

•University of Maryland Medical Center; Baltimore, Maryland

•National Institutes of Health Clinical Center; Bethesda, Maryland

•Allina Health’s Unity Hospital; Fridley, Minnesota

•Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota - Saint Paul campus; St. Paul, Minnesota

•Mayo Clinic Hospital - Rochester, Saint Marys Campus; Rochester, Minnesota

•University of Minnesota Medical Center, West Bank campus, Minneapolis, Minnesota

•Nebraska Medicine - Nebraska Medical Center; Omaha, Nebraska

•North Shore System LIJ/Glen Cove Hospital; Glen Cove, New York

•Montefiore Health System; New York City, New York

•New York-Presbyterian/Allen Hospital; New York City, New York

•NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation/HHC Bellevue Hospital Center; New York City, New York

•Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital; New Brunswick, New Jersey

•The Mount Sinai Hospital; New York City, New York

•Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

•Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

•University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston; Galveston, Texas

•Methodist Hospital System in collaboration with Parkland Hospital System and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center; Richardson, Texas

•University of Virginia Medical Center; Charlottesville, Virginia

•Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center; Richmond, Virginia

•Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; Milwaukee, Wisconsin

•Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin – Froedtert Hospital, Milwaukee; Milwaukee, Wisconsin

•UW Health – University of Wisconsin Hospital, Madison, and the American Family Children’s Hospital, Madison; Madison, Wisconsin

•MedStar Washington Hospital Center; Washington, D.C.

•Children's National Medical Center; Washington, D.C.

•George Washington University Hospital; Washington, D.C.

[bgill]

Looks like Duncan’s hospital doesn’t want anything to do with the disease.

[ansel12]

Makes you wonder why the CDC spend billions and years on building just a handful of Level 4 Ebola treatment centers when they now, in a matter of weeks, are able to create 30 more and will be adding to those weekly.

Because your statement is nonsense, that isn't describing what is going on at all.

Treatment centers aren't classified as "level 4" but research labs can be, the 4 super isolation units that America has were created for treating primarily the researchers in those labs that could become infected from things worse than Ebola, this story is about 35 hospitals designated to treat Ebola patients.

[DoughtyOne]

Not one hospital south of Sacramento in California.

Heck, we’re only talking about 25 million or so...

[austinaero]

Hmmm, why so many?

[Jim Noble]

This is of great concern to me. There are only two reasons I can think of to create a network of this size:

One: Bureaucratic nest-feathering.

Two: They plan to bring significant numbers of West African nationals to the US for treatment.

[Dawn53Fl]

Looks like they left out us “Southerners”...(there is one in Texas and one in GA.)

Just last night I had a conversation with an ICU nurse at a local hospital. They have received Ebola training and also have a “command center” and protocol in place in case an Ebola patient should be admitted.

I asked her if they would have to shut down the entire ICU as they did in Texas when treating Duncan. She told me they had re-engineered the ICU and changed the air filtering system, so that 2 ICU rooms have their own recycling air (I have no idea what the details of this are.)

Also they had full hazmat training, including taking off gowns, etc. They apray them in a bleach solution before they even begin to take the suits off. Triple gloved, at which point I asked her how to they’d insert an IV with 3 pairs of gloves on...feeling for a vein would be hard.

So even though it’s obvious this hospital isn’t on th elist, at least they’re preparing the staff to take care of a patient until they can be transported to one of the “approved center.”

[Smokin' Joe]

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