Go on a sales call with Peter Jenkner, and you’re likely to hear about mustard gas, Ebola and H1N1. He’s president of Romeoville-based Isovac Products, maker of a portable “isolation unit” designed to ...

NEW ORLEANS — Coronavirus clusters at Louisiana nursing homes took another troubling jump Tuesday, increasing from 28 to 40 facilities. One of the first in the metro area was the Chateau de Notre Dame ...

In 2002, when the hospital created a unit to help the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) with serious communicable diseases, staff realized it would need to have a transportation plan in ...

Caring for patients with Ebola comes with very strict guidelines for hospital workers. TODAY’s Matt Lauer observed the procedures firsthand during a visit last month to Emory University Hospital’s ...

McCandless, Pa. — The Vincentian Home, a retirement community in McCandless, is working to keep its residents and staff safe amid the coronavirus pandemic. It is also working to help those who have ...

Wesley Medical Center is purchasing a Clinic in a Can – a converted 20-foot shipping container – for use as an isolation unit, potentially for Ebola patients. Jaime Green The Wichita Eagle With the ...

Emory University Hospital in Atlanta said Thursday it was preparing a special isolation unit to receive a patient with Ebola disease “within the next several days”. “We do not know at this time when ...

When it comes to deadly, contagious disease outbreaks like Ebola, the terms "quarantine" and "isolation" take on fresh relevance and urgency. Each has a distinct meaning in the public health context, ...

The Connecticut Department of Correction has moved its medical isolation unit, used to separate inmates sickened with COVID-19, from the state’s maximum-security prison to a nearby facility, officials ...

KAREN? >> SO MUCH ABOUT THIS VIRUS CREATES ISOLATION AND LONLINESS FOR EVERYBODY INVOLVED. IT’S NECESSARY TO PROTECT PEOPLE AND TREAT PATIENTS, BUT FOR MANY ON THE FRONT LINES IT’S THE MOST DIFFICULT ...

For 25 years, Sgt. Gary Harkins was a correctional officer at the Oregon State Penitentiary. He retired in February. For part of that time, Harkins worked in the prison's isolation unit. "It's only ...

With an 11-page, handwritten complaint, a convicted rapist in Georgia convinced a judge to investigate and eventually open to outsiders its solitary confinement unit, NBC News reported. Timothy Gumm ...