PART 16. “The federal government is opening a new MASS FACILITY TO HOLD MIGRANT CHILDREN, a temporary emergency shelter that will not be subject to state child welfare licensing requirements.”

June 21, 2019

ASSIGNMENT: You are the head of the Department of Public Health Sciences, The University of Texas at El Paso and have been “volunteered” to develop a Rapid Response “shadow” licensing program for the new Carrizo Springs, Texas “emergency” shelter which will house as many as 1,600 teens. “Are you arguing seriously that you do not

PART 12. June17, 2019. “Three cases of EBOLA have emerged in Uganda, a neighboring country to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.”

June 18, 2019

In a “worst-case scenario,” the current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo may take up to two years to end…. San Antonio found itself ill-prepared to handle a sudden influx of refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo. ASSIGNMENT: What immediate actions should be taken in the United States? PARTS 1-11, May 15,

PART 3. June 6, 2019. CANDIDA AURIS. “Antibiotic-resistant superbugs are everywhere. If your hospital claims it doesn’t have them, it isn’t looking hard enough.” (D)

June 7, 2019

ASSIGNMENT: How should a hospital respond to the New York State initiative to prevent the spread of Candida auris, when there are no evidenced based best practices? New PART 3 after PARTS 1 & 2 ART 1. April16, 2019. Is it ethical for the public not to be notified about new “super bugs” in hospitals

PART 2. June 1, 2019. “The situation that the New York Times described in North Carolina parallels that at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, which stopped performing heart surgeries after the Tampa Bay Times reported on problems in the unit

June 4, 2019

In the doctors’ meeting, the (UNC) chief of pediatric cardiology, Dr. Timothy Hoffman, was blunt. “It’s a nightmare right now,” he said. “We are in crisis, and everyone is aware of that.” North Carolina’s secretary of health on Friday called for an investigation into a hospital where doctors had suspected children with complex heart conditions