Flu Helps Prepare for Sars; Hospitals Realize Plans to Deal with Outbreak Are Not Complete

Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque) › February 12, 2004

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ATLANTA (AP) - When a glut of flu patients swamped medical workers in Nashville, Tenn., one day last month, Vanderbilt University Medical Center pulled out its SARS disaster plan.

For six hours, hospital officials considered setting up a special ward for flu patients, something right out of their pages for handling a SARS outbreak.

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Flu Helps Prepare for Sars; Hospitals Realize Plans to Deal with Outbreak Are Not Complete

Ultimately, the makeshift ward wasn't created because enough beds were freed up by discharging patients early. But the situation was a test of Vanderbilt's SARS response plan and helped the hospital knock out some kinks.

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