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US: Nursing homes unready for pandemic

Posted on July 22, 2008

Via Yahoo News: Nursing Homes Unprepared for Pandemic Flu Fallout. Excerpt: If an influenza pandemic swept through the United States, nursing homes might not be prepared to deal with patient overflow from hospitals, say researchers who looked at more than 400 nursing homes in Michigan and Nebraska to come to this conclusion.Of those nursing homes, only 23 percent had a specific pandemic influenza plan, 23 percent had a pandemic response incorporated into an overall disaster response plan, and 52 percent had no pandemic plan.The researchers also found that less than half of the nursing homes ha...

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