North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System is planning to build a biological containment unit to strengthen its response to infectious disease outbreaks
The Great Neck, N.Y.-based North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System is planning to build a biological containment unit to strengthen its response to infectious disease outbreaks, according to an article on the Becker's Hospital Review website.
North Shore-LIJ will model the unit after the Nebraska Medicine Biocontainment Patient Care Unit at Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha and the Serious Communicable Disease Unit at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, according to the article.
November 3, 2014
Topic Area: Safety
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