Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and Emory University Hospital Participate in Nationwide Infectious Diseases Exercise

ATLANTA (June 27, 2025) – Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and Emory University Hospital participated in a nationwide four-day, large-scale patient movement exercise that involved more than 50 international, federal, state and local collaborators, designed to test and validate the nation’s  ability to move patients with highly infectious diseases safely and securely to regional treatment centers. Children’s Arthur M. Blank Hospital and Emory University Hospital, a part of Emory Healthcare, are two of 13 Regional Emerging Special Pathogen Treatment Centers in the country with specialized training and capabilities to care for patients with highly contagious infectious diseases.

The exercise, called Tranquil Passport, is the largest patient movement exercise in the history of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) involving patients with a highly contagious infectious disease. Led by the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR), a part of HHS, the exercise took place June 24-27 at airfields, hospitals and emergency operations centers across Washington, DC; New York, NY; Raleigh, NC; Atlanta, GA and Toronto. This exercise was an opportunity to test the new HHS Portable Biocontainment Unit (PBCU), the first domestic resource for isolating and transporting multiple patients with contagious infectious diseases via ground and air.

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