LANSING, Mich. (News 10) – Hospitals from Detroit to Grand Rapids held a training exercise Tuesday, practicing what would need to happen if a patient with a deadly infection needed to be transferred across Michigan.
The emergency crews started in Detroit, transferred in Lansing, and ended in Grand Rapids at Corewell Health, one of just 13 facilities in the country equipped to treat patients with special pathogens.
Infectious diseases like Ebola and Hantavirus rarely touch American soil, but UM Health-Sparrow emergency management specialist Tyler Cassidy said local doctors and nurses need to be ready…