When I was working at the jail, our area had a really strong TB coalition, which included the Lung Association, the area hospital IC staff, the Jail, and others, along with the local health department. Our team wrote a letter outlining the issues faced and each one of the Infection Control Nurses brought it to their Hospital Administrators with not only the issues, but a proposal. If every hospital put in approximately $5,000.00 (there were five of them) then the ALA would match their donation. This could ensure folks could get out of Neg. AII rooms earlier, and the health department could place them into an apartment or motel until their infectious period was over. It benefitted everyone (ALA held the purse, HD was the ones who decided who went in the housing). This kitty was renewed every year through the hospitals, jails, etc. and went on for several years like that.
Unfortunately I've lost touch with them, so do not know if it is still ongoing, but it seems like it would still work if all were motivated.
EM
Ellen R. Murray, PhD, BSN, RN
Nurse Consultant/Training Specialist
Southeastern National Tuberculosis Center
Gainesville, FL 32610
Ph: 352-273-9385
We may never stop TB from entering correctional facilities, but we can halt the transmission of this disease through education and training Murray, 2013
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In Hawaii we do the same as you. Good Luck!
Angie
Angela Goodbody, RN
Nursing Supervisor
State of Hawaii, Dept of Health
TB Control Branch
1700 Lanakila Avenue, Ground Floor
Honolulu, HI 96817
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Fax (808) 832-3538
Hello TB nurses!
I am writing from the Alaska TB program. I am interested to hear how other states house persons with infectious TB who are not clear to travel home, or don’t have a home to go to. We work to keep these persons in the hospital as long as we can, but there is a lot of push to get them dc’d if they are medically stable. In Alaska, we are limited to finding motels that don’t share air. We frequently pay for the cost of housing folks who do not have resources and are not eligible for housing through Medicaid or other sources.
Thanks in advance,
Donna
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In WV we have state owned and operated facility that can house our noninfectious TB patients and a state owned and operated acute care hospital that will house our infectious TB patients.
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Hello TB nurses!
I am writing from the Alaska TB program. I am interested to hear how other states house persons with infectious TB who are not clear to travel home, or don’t have a home to go to. We work to keep these persons in the hospital as long as we can, but there is a lot of push to get them dc’d if they are medically stable. In Alaska, we are limited to finding motels that don’t share air. We frequently pay for the cost of housing folks who do not have resources and are not eligible for housing through Medicaid or other sources.
Thanks in advance,
Donna
Donna Fearey, ANP, MSN
Nurse Epidemiologist
State
of Alaska
3601
C Street, Suite 540
Anchorage,
AK
99503
Phone: 907-269-8093
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