Nebraska Biocontainment Unit

1. Explain how the environment is prepared, maintained and cleaned to ensure it is ready for the healthcare activity

This is a report of an Interview with Karen Gordon-Sosby, associate director at Texas State Student Health Center. Karen is a highly motivated professional, an experienced healthcare administrator and appears to possess inherent management and leadership skills that are quite significant and noteworthy. Her expertise in performing the indispensable task in managing and analyzing financial records, brings a unique blend of health administration and public health prowess to the healthcare industry.

Every year influenza (flu) hits America, and often leaves adults and children ill for days. The Centers for Disease Control takes it upon themselves to encourage adults and children to get vaccinated for the flu. They do this through an advertising campaign that relates to people of all ages. Their Centers for Disease Control campaign focuses on convincing people of all ages, especially children, to get flu vaccinces.

Federal Qualified Public Health Clinic (FQPH) is experiencing an organizational break down. Many of FQPH patients are recipients of Medicaid and SCHIP, or uninsured self-pay clients as it is located in a large Northwestern City. The physicians are frustrated with current conditions. As a last-ditch effort, they inform Administrator of their complaints that need immediate attention or they will terminate employment. Those complaints include inadequate paper medical records; inefficient patient registration practices; mean and slow employees; mistreatment of patients and medical staff; inadequate staff; disorganization of medical supplies and medications; untimely lab results; unclean facility; and unsafe parking.

As a healthcare practitioners, husband, and father, I think that the CDC had every right the detain Mr. Speaker, to enforce public health law. In the scenario it stated that Mr. Speaker knew of his deadly illness before he boarded the plane to return back to Atlanta. It was the responsible of Mr. Speaker, to inform the crew of his contagious illness so control measures could have been put in place to minimize expose of his illness to other passenger on the airplane. The Center for Disease and Control (CDC) has guidelines in place for the aircrews members to prevent the spread of germs in the respiratory system such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome [MERS] ("Infection control guidelines for cabin crew members on commercial aircraft quarantine

There are a lot of governmental bodies that regulate social and economic businesses and have a lot impact on agencies with their rules, laws, and regulations. One of the given industries that impacts or societal and health in a lot of ways would be the The Centers for Disease Control. This regulatory agency would fall under Public Health and The Occupational safety and Health Department.

The infected person should be in separated from other people. All equipment, medical waste, patient waste and surfaces that may have come into contact with body fluids need to be disinfected. During the 2014 outbreak, kits were put together to help families treat Ebola disease in their homes, which include protective clothing as well as chlorine powder and other cleaning supplies. Education of those who provide care in these techniques, and the establishment of such barrier-separation supplies has been a priority of Doctors without Borders.

The National Institute of Health's article states that the commencement of the 21st century helped with the provision of a preview of the numerous challenges that the US would face in the coming decades. The article's areas of focus that would help change the health of America's population include the adoption of a population health approach that gives consideration to health determinants, the strengthening of the public health infrastructure of the government, the development of accountability systems to enable the assurance of the quality and availability of public health services, and others (Curry, 2005). Furthermore, the report suggests several findings that would help enhance America's public health. For instance, the article suggests that appropriate education and training should be provided to the public health workforce if America's public health is to undergo a significant evolution. Despite NIH article's findings and commitment to change America's public health, no significant efforts have been channeled towards the elimination of the health challenges faced by a huge percentage of America's population. Essentially, America is yet to realize its goals of eliminating incessant health challenges. Today, in the US, the obesity rate has soared from 27.6% to

The Chicago Department of Public health exemplifies a public health department that is extremely proactive and supportive of initiatives to eradicate or significantly decreasing the incidence of STI/HIV /AIDS in the City of Chicago. To this end, the Chicago Department of Health monitors the incidences of new cases in the city, while constantly monitoring the progression or regression of the conditions of patients already affected by the HIV virus. Statistical data is collected through the avenue set up for health care providers to report all pertinent information about newly diagnosed HIV or an unusual turn of events with old HIV cases. furthermore, the Chicago Department of Public health ( CDPH) through it monitoring programs is able identify threats, determine which health care services is need by a community and the target population. For example in the month of November their target segments were gays and bisexual African American men, because both groups were disproportionately impacted by the HIV outbreak during the previous summer,

The University of Nebraska Medical Center-Omaha has recently been recognized for excellence in accommodating individuals with disabilities. This is an excellent accomplishment and one that everyone should be proud of. The state of Nebraska, the State Medical Board, and all persons with disabilities who visit the medical center are very proud of this accomplishment and recognition.

There is a big problem in the United States when it comes to money being spent on preventable diseases. Why is this the case? Here are a few ideas. For one, America has become a place where everything is immediate. People are able to get food, music, information, and more in little to no time, and now this is what Americans want for their health problems as well. Instead of people taking care of themselves in order to prevent disease, they wait until they are sick and go to the doctor for instant gratification or a “quick fix”, like a pill. This leads to another point; Americans are becoming lazy. People do not want to take their health seriously, and end up causing more problems for themselves, and the country, in the long run. Finally, this

Advisory board for the Mansfield BioIncubator is a great opportunity, if there's any possibility you should just go for it. I've received a flyer for the grand opening , will you be attending? I totally agree about TechSandbox, as a volunteer for ASQ I feel like I get more inspiration, mentorship, and connections with other quality professionals. The only good thing I can say is; that I met you there and you lead me to ASQ.

Well, the sitting on 4 acres the hospital encompasses Ronald Regan UCLA Medical center, Stewart and Lynda Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital at UCLA and Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA. Some key features I found extremely helpful is their organization. Every floor of Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center is devoted to a specific specialty and equipped with all of the essential support equipment and supplies. Every floor has its own satellite pharmacy, dialysis storage, respiratory therapy workrooms, and resident doctor sleep rooms. Additionally; each patient room has the ability to convert into an intensive care unit (ICU) to allow for the continuous care of a critically ill patient in one room. This makes caring for patients extremely easy as everything they need is made available to them at the exact moment of a potential emergency. (Ronald Regan UCLA Medical Center, 2013)

In 1998, Biopure Corporation is one of the three legitimate contenders in the emerging field of “blood substitutes” along with Baxter International and Northfield

Design plays a big role in the environment of hospitals, and more importantly the recovery of patients. Many problems in hospitals such as infection control can be solved with the simplest solution of the placement of the sink or sanitizing station at the point of use. The Florida Hospital Waterman located in Tavares sits in the heart of the landscape, which happens to be home to many endangered birds, allowing nature and human to coexist (Hitechos 2014).