Sustainability of High-Level Isolation Capabilities among US Ebola Treatment Centers

Abstract

To identify barriers to maintaining and applying capabilities of US high-level isolation units (HLIUs) used during the Ebola virus disease outbreak, during 2016 we surveyed HLIUs. HLIUs identified sustainability challenges and reported the highly infectious diseases they would treat. HLIUs expended substantial resources in development but must strategize models of sustainability to maintain readiness.

Keywords

• Ebolavirus
• Ebola virus disease
• viruses
• communicable diseases
• hospitals
• isolation