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UMMC Announces Plans for New Isolation Unit for Ebola Threat
Source: WJTV
Nationwide the Centers for Disease Control estimates that only about two dozen hospital beds are fit for Ebola treatment.
On Monday, staff at the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) said they are adding to that total.
In a press conference administrators told a group of reporters that the new isolation unit is about a quarter-mile away from the main hospital.
That distance means that if a patient needed to be isolated, that person's presence would not impact the intensive care unit or the clinical enterprise.
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Read more: http://www.wjtv.com/story/27410726/ummc-announces-plans-for-new-isolation-unit-for-ebola-threat