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 ...

Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Hospital is in the midst of a construction project to build an isolation unit designed to treat patients with Ebola and other highly infectious diseases, according to a ...

Conditions in the state prison system’s isolation unit are the “harshest and most draconian” of any in the country and it puts inmates at risk of “irreversible and even fatal harm,” according to an ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Collection documents the development, study, and evaluation of gnotobiotic or germ-free patient isolation. During the 1960s, Shriners Burn Unit in ...

COLTON, Calif. (KABC) -- Arrowhead Regional Medical Center in Colton has faced health care crises in the past, but the 2014 Ebola scare led to one of its doctors inventing a device that could soon be ...

In an effort to rapidly provide specialized care for patients with coronavirus-like symptoms while protecting the safety of health care workers, doctors at Wake Forest Baptist Health created a special ...

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 ...

Inmates held in medical isolation or quarantine units in any of Connecticut’s 14 prisons or jails are temporarily prohibited from using their correctional facility’s showers. A memo issued on May 1 ...