Bipartisan Senate Bill Filed To Create Ebola Treatment Hubs

November 25, 2014 at 2:49 PM
A bipartisan bill in the Senate would set aside federal resources for HHS to create “treatment hubs” for Ebola cases -- legislation that comes as health care worker advocates press major concerns with OSHA and other federal health officials about the potential for more Ebola cases to appear in U.S. hospitals and lead to alarm about worker exposures. Sens. Edward Markey (D-MA) and Robert Portman (R-OH) filed the bill, the Infectious Disease Hospital Hubs Act, to create regionally designated hospitals...


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