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CDC Announces New Guidelines For Health Care Workers Treating Ebola Patients

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued new guidelines on Monday for health care workers caring for patients with Ebola.

The new guidelines "provide an increased margin of safety," CDC Director Tom Frieden said in a conference call with reporters.

Frieden added that they represented a "consensus" by the health care workers who have treated people with Ebola in the United States, including those workers at hospitals in Atlanta and Nebraska that have treated Ebola without further transmission.

The CDC is, of course, reacting to what happened at Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, where two nurses caring for Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United States, contracted the virus.

"The [old] guidelines didn't work for that hospital," Frieden said.

Because of the lessons learned, the CDC said it was implementing three new recommendations:

First, they will make sure that health care workers dealing with Ebola patients are "repeatedly trained," especially when it comes to learning how to put on and take off their personal protective equipment.

Second, the equipment used should leave no skin exposed.

Third, these regulations should be monitored by a "trained observer" or site manager, who watches each employee take on and off their personal protective equipment.

"All patients treated at Emory University Hospital, Nebraska Medical Center and the NIH Clinical Center have followed the three principles," the CDC said in a press release. "None of the workers at these facilities have contracted the illness."

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Speakers Emphasize Need to Integrate Primary, Mental Health Care

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For years, the prevailing notion in medicine held that the body is treated in a physician's office and the mind in a separate mental health facility.

That view is slowly changing, however, as a growing number of medical professionals and others contend that such separation leads to ineffective treatment that does not answer patients' needs.

"When you take mental health out of primary care, you get poor outcomes and you pay more for it," said Benjamin Miller, Psy.D., director of the Eugene S. Farley Jr. Health Policy Center, an initiative of the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine. The majority of patients who are diagnosed with mental illness are initially seen and treated in a primary care setting, he noted.

Miller spoke during a recent forum hosted by the Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies in Family Medicine and Primary Care, "From Fragmentation to Integration: A Triple Aim Imperative." During the event, panelists addressed how the notion that a patient's mental health can be separated from his or her physical health is an outdated one.

Unfortunately, said Miller, the majority of patients who receive a referral from their primary care physician to a mental health specialist do not make the visit. He suggested that one reason for the lack of follow-up is the unwillingness of patients to describe their mental health to another professional with whom they are not familiar after having already detailed their concerns to a physician they trust.

"People are saying, 'When I go for primary care, I want my mental health needs to be addressed there," said Miller.

Parinda Khatri, Ph.D., chief clinical officer at Cherokee Health Systems, a comprehensive community health care organization with 56 clinical sites in 13 counties in Tennessee, recalled a woman who recently visited a clinic after her son died in an accident. The day after the accident, the woman went to see her primary care physician to discuss her situation. If she had instead tried to make an appointment with a therapist, she might have faced a six-week waiting period.

"We need to be on the path that patients have decided to walk," said Khatri.

According to Miller, policymakers and private insurers have sufficient reason to combine mental and physical health care because there is a market incentive to reduce overall costs and a public health mandate to improve patient outcomes.

Still, those in the general population don't place a premium on taking care of their own health, Khatri observed, perhaps because they don't receive strong enough encouragement to do so.

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CDC issues new protocols for health care workers treating Ebola patients

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Dallas TheUnited Statesissued stringent new protocols on Monday for health workers treatingEbolavictims, directing medical teams to wear protective gear that leaves no skin or hair exposed to prevent medical workers from becoming infected.

The new guidelines from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention inAtlantacome as 43 people who were exposed to the first patient diagnosed in theUnited Stateswere declared risk free, easing a national sense of crisis that took hold after twoTexasnurses who treated him contracted the disease.

Under new protocols,Ebolahealthcare workers also must undergo special training and demonstrate competency in using protective equipment. Use of the gear, now including coveralls, and single-use, disposable hoods, must be overseen by a supervisor to ensure proper procedures are followed when caring for patients withEbola, which is transmitted through direct contact with bodily fluids but is not airborne. (CDC protocols: http://1.usa.gov/1vYIwWA)

The hemorrhagic fever has killed more than 4,500 people, mainly in the West African nations ofLiberia,Sierra LeoneandGuinea.

"Even a single healthcare worker infection is unacceptable," CDC DirectorTom Friedensaid in a teleconference with reporters outlining the new regulations.

The old guidelines for health workers, based on World Health Organization protocols, said they should wear masks or goggles but allowed some skin exposure.

More than 40 people exposed to the firstEbolapatient diagnosed in theUnited States,Thomas Eric Duncan, emerged from isolation with a clean bill of health on Monday.

Among those released from monitoring on Monday were the only four individuals quarantined by official order - Duncan's fiance and three other people who shared an apartment with him inDallasbefore he was hospitalized. Duncan died on Oct. 8.

Texasofficials said 120 other potentially exposed people in the state, more than half of them medical workers who had contact with Duncan after he was hospitalized, were still being monitored forEbolasymptoms for the remainder of a 21-day incubation period.

That group includes the two nurses who became infected while treating him atTexas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, presumably because they were wearing flimsy protective gear that left some of their skin exposed.

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Ebola Session Panel – What is it about Ebola that makes health care workers so susceptible to it? – Video

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Rush University Medical Center held three Ebola education sessions on Oct. 16 and 17, during which Rush leaders took questions from employees about Ebola and how might care for an Ebola patient.

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Mid Coast Walk-In Medical Clinic Tour Review – Brunswick Maine Health Care – Video

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