{"id":20501,"date":"2014-10-14T20:45:25","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T01:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=20501"},"modified":"2014-10-14T20:45:25","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T01:45:25","slug":"was-the-texas-health-presbyterian-hospital-prepared-for-ebola-probably-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/14\/was-the-texas-health-presbyterian-hospital-prepared-for-ebola-probably-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Was the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Prepared for Ebola? Probably not."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is breaking news as of Tuesday PM.  According to the nurses at the hospital, no, not initially. Anonymous nurses <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2014\/10\/14\/health\/texas-ebola-nurses-union-claims\/index.html?hpt=hp_t1\">have claimed via their union<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>-Patient Zero was left for several hours in a place with up to seven other patients, not in isolation. When a senior nurse attempted to insist he be moved to an isolation unit she was met with &#8220;hostile&#8221; responses.<br \/>\n-Blood samples were transported through the hospital tube system instead of hand carried.<br \/>\n-Nurses were not entirely covered with protective wear.  The gear they had left their necks exposed.  To remedy this they were told to wrap tape or gauze (not sure) around their necks.<br \/>\n-People were going in and out of isolation areas without protective equipment.<br \/>\n-Medical waste was not properly handled, with hazardous waste piled nearly to the ceiling as there was no plan to dispose of it.<\/p>\n<p>The hospital has not responded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is breaking news as of Tuesday PM. According to the nurses at the hospital, no, not initially. Anonymous nurses have claimed via their union: -Patient Zero was left for several hours in a place with up to seven other patients, not in isolation. When a senior nurse attempted to insist he be moved to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/14\/was-the-texas-health-presbyterian-hospital-prepared-for-ebola-probably-not\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Was the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Prepared for Ebola? Probably not.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3489,2159,689,3391],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-5kF","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20501"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}