Texas Hospital Apologizes for 'Mistakes' in Ebola Treatment in Full-Page Ad

[KittyWampus]

Source: CBS News

Texas Hospital Apologizes for 'Mistakes' in Ebola Treatment in Full-Page Ad

The Dallas hospital where Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan was treated, and where two nurses who worked on him contracted the disease, apologized again for making "mistakes" — this time in a letter published via full-page ad in two local newspapers Sunday.

"The fact the Mr. Duncan had traveled to Africa was not communicated effectively," the letter, written by Texas Health Resources CEO Barclay Berdan, read. "For that we are deeply sorry." Texas Health Resources owns Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, where Duncan visited three days before he was admitted and diagnosed with Ebola. Duncan died Oct. 8.

The ad — taken out in the Dallas Morning News and Fort Worth Star-Telegram — admitted that the hospital "made mistakes in handling this very difficult challenge," in part because "training and education programs had not been fully deployed before the virus struck."

The letter said the hospital was searching for answers regarding why nurses Nina Pham and Amber Vinson also contracted the disease. Pham was transferred from Texas Health Presbyterian to a National Institutes of Health facility in Bethesda, Maryland, and Vinson was flown to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, after her diagnosis. The letter said Texas Health Presbyterian was working with the Centers for Disease Control to improve their response methods. "Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas is a safe place for employees and patients," the letter said.

Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebola-virus-outbreak/texas-hospital-apologizes-mistakes-ebola-treatment-full-page-ad-n229196

[blm]

1. Aug/Sept:Obama tells leaders here and around world to be alert and prepared to contain ebola.

Now the GOP and its stenographers in corpmedia have spent all of October blaming Obama for Texas' government and its health department, and their refusal to follow any guidelines from this WH.

Corporate media jumped at the chance to blame Obama for Texas' failures.

[jwirr]

2. Bingo. They say they are looking for why the two nurses have ebola. If the nurse who told us about

the early treatment and the lack of education is correct then they already know why.

[Cosmocat]

8. right

they got to beat up on BHO for a month, drag his poll numbers down, don't get held accountable for going of the rails on it, and get to point at the poll numbers as "proof" of how bad he is.

Rinse and repeat ...

[Mr.Bill]

3. If they are admitting any degree of responsibility

in the matter, I'll bet they already have a settlement worked out with the family.

[The Stranger]

4. Where is that piece of shit Texas governor, who had been holding press conferences on the front lawn

of the hospital just three weeks ago?

[dixiegrrrrl]

12. Perry? He is being indicted.

He tried going to Europe and pretend it was not happening, but it is indeed happening.

Indicted Texas Gov. Rick Perry will make his first court appearance on Halloween as his defense team tries to quash the two felony counts of abuse of power against him on both constitutional and technical grounds.

http://www.juanitajean.com/2014/10/14/comeondown/

[Demit]

5. They're tweeting an image of hospital workers praying for patients.

That's the image of their brand of healthcare they want to project? Whose PR brainstorm was that?

https://twitter.com/texashealth/status/523263705731985408/photo/1

[Historic NY]

6. Wow there are some sharp comments on that feed...

about prayer being a solution for the virus...

[KittyWampus]

7. One comment- Texas Hospitals now just pray for patients instead of healing them

Texas Hospitals now just pray for patients instead of healing them. Tell us, what is the reimbursement rate for this?

[Historic NY]

9. Someone should tell that to that ding dong in Iowa...

isn't that the health care model she is pushing...."church care"

[Downwinder]

10. Makes one wonder how many mistakes they have buried.

[uppityperson]

11. "Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas is a safe place for employees and patients"? No, it is

not.

Not when 2 nurses contracted ebola caregiving there.

CYA fail.

[surf181]

13. Listen to the Nurse

Nurses will tell you the truth, they want you to be healthy. In 1970's and early 1980's nurses were in charge within the hospitals. Doctors, other nurses, administrators were scared of these supervisors and moved when they spoke.

Then with Reagan began the deconstruction of the hospital and public health system, in order to profitize healthcare (the real death panel). Gradually administrators were given the responsibilities regarding health decisions within hospitals. We have been getting sicker ever since.

The stupidity of Ebola in Dallas was the result of an uninsured man not given appropriate health care nor protection of the public health. Morality, ethics, science, and the nursing supervisor were overruled by an administrator.

The first doctor he saw is responsible. Acute sinusitis patients do not arrive in ambulances though their presentations are vague and diverse. Certainly not a temperature over 103 telling you he has come from Liberia. Sent back into the community while somehow a doctor, a hospital were mentally able to separate
morality, ethics, science and choose profit.

[csziggy]

14. Are they spending more money on doing a better job than on the ad?

Inquiring minds want to know!

[valerief]

15. Sorry?