Rural preparedness

By Raymond Christensen posted 10-22-2014 10:30 AM

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As rural health care workers we are all aware of the unpredictability of what malady may enter our doors.

Through training, practice, ongoing study, reading and information from our professional organizations, we are all constantly learning and staying up to date on the latest therapies and illnesses.

To date I am not aware of Ebola’s presence at a rural site. One truism of rural medicine is that any known diagnoses, as well as evolving problems can enter our facilities at any time. We subconsciously monitor changes in our charges be they environmental, infectious, traumatic, etc.

With that same spirit and urgency, I am sure we are all monitoring and looking at how we would handle Ebola in our facilities. Obviously, the CDC website has been receiving a lot of hits from us.

NRHA has no official statements yet on Ebola.

This summer, NRHA launched a rural preparedness page on our website and has added information specific to Ebola as we receive it.

NRHA previously alerted members to a CDC call on this topic and will work to keep members apprised.

Ray Christensen, President

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