|
|
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER FACULTY MEMBER FINDS MORE THAN HALF OF NURSING HOMES DON'T HAVE PLANS FOR PANDEMIC FLU
- Article from:
-
US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
-
July 22, 2008
|
Copyright informationCopyright © HT Media Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
|
The University of Nebraska Medical Center issued the following news release:
If influenza pandemic hits the United States, acute care hospitals are likely to be overwhelmed. Nursing homes may then be expected to assist with the patient overflow, but a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that many are not prepared for such a task.
Of the more than 400 nursing homes in the study, just 23 percent had a specific pandemic influenza plan. Another quarter of the nursing homes had a pandemic response incorporated into an overall disaster response plan. And more than half - 52 percent - did not have any pandemic plan.
"If nursing homes are called upon to serve as ...