Health
Some Hospitals Fail To Set COVID-19 Patients Apart, Putting Others at Risk – NPR
Nurses say COVID-19 patients have sometimes been housed in the same units as uninfected patients. While officials have penalized nursing homes for such failures, hospitals have seen less scrutiny.
Worried registered nurses held a vigil in July at Sutter Health’s Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Oakland, Calif., to remember their colleague Janine Paiste-Ponder, who caught COVID-19, likely from a patient, and died from complications.
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Nurses at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Oakland, Calif., were on edge as early as March, when patients with COVID-19 began to show up in areas of the hospital that were not set aside to care for them.
The Centers for Disease C…
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