Feds reject Hackensack University Medical Center’s mobile unit for Ebola care
NOVEMBER 4, 2014, 7:51 PM LAST UPDATED: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2014, 7:59 AM
BY MARY JO LAYTON
STAFF WRITER |
THE RECORD
Federal health officials have rejected Hackensack University Medical Center’s plan to treat potential Ebola patients in a mobile satellite emergency unit parked down the street from the hospital, preferring instead to have patients cared for inside the hospital itself, officials said Tuesday.
Experts from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and state health officials inspected the unit, comprising three trailers recently after Governor Christie designated Hackensack as one of three primary Ebola treatment centers in the state. CDC officials did not give a reason for their refusal to approve the unit.
“Both agencies feel confident that Hackensack UMC is well prepared to treat a suspected or confirmed Ebola patient and prefer the patient be directed to our quarantined and secluded area on our main campus to receive any care,” hospital spokeswoman Nancy Radwin said in a statement.
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