Question

How has Ebola impacted the healthcare system, healthcare employees, and healthcare facilities? (200 word count)

Answer 1

As more doctors, nurses and other clinical staff get exposed to the Ebola virus, there is a considerable workers’ comp risk for the healthcare industry; which could be posed by the potential spread of the disease on U.S. soil. When the doctors treating patients in the U.S. are exposed the chances of the multiple staff working beneath them contracting the disease increases. This leads to a quick and dramatic effect on the personnel at the hospital leading to huge financial consequences. The CDC infection control, occupational safety and health, and Ebola experts have developed and disseminated Infection Prevention and Control Recommendations for Hospitalized Patients with Known or Suspected EVD in U.S. Hospitals. These recommendations contain critical aspects of prevention of Ebola transmission in hospitals that includes guidance on patient placement, PPE use, aerosol-generating procedures, environmental infection control, monitoring and management of potentially exposed HCWs.