TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Stormont Vail is in the process of converting more patient rooms into negative pressure rooms to increase its ability to care for COVID-19 patients that require hospitalization.

Negative pressure rooms, also called isolation rooms, are a type of hospital room that keeps patients with infectious illnesses, or patients who are susceptible to infections from others, away from ...

Some of the applications mentioned here require a room that maintains a higher or lower pressure compared to the surrounding ambient environment. If the isolated room has greater air pressure, it is ...

For diseases that travel through the air, like COVID-19, special hospital rooms are essential for controlling pathogens and making sure they stay contained to one patient’s room, rather than infecting ...

Hospitals in central Ohio have been preparing for the arrival of those patients for weeks. Negative-pressure rooms are specifically designed for patients with contagious diseases. The rooms look ...

Citizens Medical Center’s workers wave toward the Healthcare Heroes Parade earlier in May. Citizens Medical Center has converted dozens more rooms to be negative pressure rooms and received 16 health ...