CCFD officials said a patient brought to Christus Spohn Shoreline led to concerns about a possible hazardous material exposure, prompting temporary ER diversion.<\/p>\n
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 CHRISTUS Spohn Shoreline\u2019s emergency department was temporarily placed on diversion Tuesday afternoon after a possible hazardous material exposure involving a patient brought in by Corpus Christi firefighters.<\/p>\n
According to Corpus Christi Fire Department Assistant Fire Chief Tony Perez, a CCFD medic unit was dispatched to a residence around 2 p.m. for a medical call involving an adult patient. The patient was transported to Christus Spohn Shoreline.<\/p>\n
During the transfer of the patient inside the emergency department, hospital staff and medics noticed findings that indicated a possible hazardous material exposure, Perez said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He said that out of an abundance of caution, the Hospital\u2019s emergency department was placed on temporary diversion while Corpus Christi firefighters conducted cleanup, decontamination and atmospheric monitoring.<\/p>\n
Corpus Christi Police Department officers assisted with traffic control.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Perez said the measures were taken to ensure the safety of hospital staff, patients and first responders.<\/p>\n
Fire crews remained at the hospital while the area was cleared and monitored. Additional details about the patient or the suspected substance were not immediately released.<\/p>\n
This is a developing story. We will provide updates as more information becomes available. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CCFD officials said a patient brought to Christus Spohn Shoreline led to concerns about a possible hazardous material…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-189367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}