Tippecanoe County Has a Plan in Place if the Coronavirus Makes its way to Indiana

He Coronavirus continues to be a concern of health professionals all over the world.

That's why the Health Department in Tippecanoe County has a plan in place in case the virus makes its way to Indiana.

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That's why the health department in tippecanoe county has a plan in place in case the virus makes it's way to indiana.

I talked with local health professionals who say the plan is a team effort.

With the coronavirus continuing to be a concern...tippecanoe county has a plan in place if the virus makes it's way to indiana.

"local health departments coordinate with isdh to put together a plan.

So we have been working with our community partners which include with both hospitals..

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Fire and purdue university to make sure we have a plan in place for coronavirus."-khala hochstedler local hospitals say..

One of their biggest roles in the plan... is screening patients properly.

"we do a screening process where we ask families or we ask patients a few screening questions to see if that's a possible risk.

So, before an outbreak would occur i think we would start to see a few people enter the community and we would start to detect that there was disease in the community."-jim bean chief medical officer of quality and safety, iu health arnett any time there is a new communicable disease an alert is sent out by the indiana state department of health..

Which is what prompted this plan to be enacted.

"we have international students here... we have people who travel for business we have all sort of opportunities for people to have been to china been to where maybe the outbreak is greater and return."

Even though the health department says it's highly unlikely the virus will end up in tippecanoe county.

"everyone who is coming back from china is being monitored with temperatures checks by their local health department for two weeks."-kahla health professionals in the area are prepared.

"we are working closely as a hospital with our peer hospital over at iu..

With the county health department and with our district coalition and state department of health to keep everyone safe."- michael bayci emergency preparedness manager, franciscan health these types of preparations haven't taken place since the ebola outbreak back in 20-14.

All of the health organizations in our area want to remind people that these are just preparations... there have been zero cases of the coronavirus in indiana.

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