Hospitals could turn away terminally ill, others if severe flu outbreak occurs

By LIZ FREEMAN
Posted October 25, 2009 at 6:55 p.m.

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The Florida Department of Health is preparing a plan for rationing scarce medical resources in the event of a severe flu outbreak that would allow hospitals to refuse admission to the terminally ill, trauma patients and ventilator patients with the lowest chance of survival, according to the plan.

“In the event of a pandemic influenza or other public health emergency, the demand for health-care resources and services will dramatically increase,â€