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The next Ebola is coming
Infectious disease control was top of mind a year ago,
but today, complacency is a threat
By Kristin D. Zeit
Americans "have a very short attention span," warned Dr. Bruce Ribner, medical director of the Emory University Hospital Serious Communicable Diseases
Unit, during a Capitol Hill briefing in early October. As the editor of a magazine
that's constantly on the lookout for what's next, I have to admit, he's got a point.
When the Ebola epidemic hit the States, we were very focused on creating and
sharing content on containment units and other design strategies for infection
control. It's not that infection control isn't still very high on our list of important
topics-but we see fewer story pitches now on designing spaces specifically
tailored to isolating highly contagious diseases, and when we do, it's hard not to
feel like it's "old news."
Yet it's been just over a year since the Ebola panic. And as Ribner told his
audience in D.C. (as reported in the Washington Times), "There will be another
infectious disease outbreak, and it's probably going to be with an agent that I
don't have on my slide."
Ribner's own budget at Emory-one of the very few hospitals in the U.S. that
was equipped to care for Ebola patients last summer-was cut by two-thirds,
he said. He urged that funding for proper care and control of the spread of
highly communicable diseases is critical. And not just when crisis rears its head;
added Dr. James DeLuc, director of the Galveston National Laboratory, "The
problem is sustainability. We've got to make sure there's a constant pipeline of
funding."
If you're attending the Healthcare Design Expo & Conference this month, also
in D.C., you can learn more specifics about current isolation units and future
planning efforts in the sessions "Effective Biocontainment Unit Design in the
Age of Ebola" and "Ebola-Ready: The Special Isolation Unit at Texas Children's
Hospital" (a project I also wrote about here: HCDmagazine.
com/houston-texas-childrens).
I'm very excited that the 2015 HCD Expo & Conference
is finally here, and I look forward to seeing and talking with
many of you on-site. In healthcare, complacency can have
catastrophic consequences, and educational events like
these are an incredible vehicle for making sure we keep our
eyes on the ball, always. HCD

EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD
Hank Adams HDR John W. Andrews Leo A Daly Carolyn BaRoss Perkins+Will Jody Barry Adventist Care
Centers Jeffrey Brand Perkins Eastman Sam Burnette Earl Swensson Associates Sheila F. Cahnman
JumpGarden Consulting LLC James Crispino Francis Cauffman Christine Hester Devens AECOM Laurel
Harrison Stantec Kari Houser Gundersen Tri-County Hospital and Clinics Walter Jones MetroHealth System
Michael Lied GBBN Architects Jain Malkin Jain Malkin Inc. Mike McKay Erdman Don Orndoff Kaiser
Permanente Diane R.K. Osan FKP Architects Mark Patterson SmithGroupJJR Andrew Quirk Skanska USA
Building Pamela H. Redden UT MD Anderson Cancer Center Joan Saba NBBJ Kim Shinn TLC Engineering
for Architecture Karl R. Sonnenberg Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects LLP Jeffrey C. Stouffer HKS Inc.
Paul E. Strohm HOK Jocelyn Stroupe CannonDesign Don Thomas BWBR Roger S. Ulrich Chalmers
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