Becker’s Healthcare Podcast Transforming Hospital Isolation with Alex Laskey of CareCubes
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Mar 23, 2026 Alex Laskey, founder and CEO of CareCubes who builds deployable negative-pressure isolation solutions, explains why portable isolation matters. He describes the 15-minute setup, FDA clearance, and real-world hospital and rural deployments. He discusses preserving bed capacity, cutting infections, and a vision to make isolation as common and easy to use as other lifesaving tools.
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Negative Pressure Rooms In Minutes
- Deployable negative pressure tents create hospital-grade isolation in minutes.
- CareCubes assemble in ~15 minutes, plug into a fan and manometer, and meet FDA negative pressure room standards.
Wrap The Patient Not The Provider
- CareCubes invert infection control by enclosing the patient instead of wrapping PPE around clinicians.
- This lets nurses and doctors care for patients without donning and doffing PPE for each interaction.
Real Use Case In Semi Private Rooms
- CareCubes are deployed across a dozen hospitals in 10 states with varied use cases.
- One health system with 40% semi-private rooms uses them to avoid killing beds when isolating contagious patients.