Was anyone prepared anywhere?
Via CNS News:
(CNSNews.com) – The Virginia Hospital Center, which is rated as one of the nation’s Top 100 hospitals and which turned away a suspected Ebola patient last Friday after the patient waited outside the hospital in an ambulance for an estimated 20 minutes, says it was not yet prepared to admit the patient at that time in light of suspected Ebola cases that had surfaced elsewhere and changing CDC guidelines.
The hospital says it believed it first needed to finish constructing an anteroom that staff could use going in and out of a suspected Ebola patient’s room in the hospital’s “biocontainment area.”
“When the Ebola crisis initially unfolded and early guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) were released, Virginia Hospital Center put in place processes and protocols that allowed us to safely screen suspected Ebola patients,” the hospital said in a written statement.