The U.S. healthcare worker who was exposed to the Ebola virus while in Sierra Leone was taken to Omaha-based Nebraska Medical Center Sunday, one of the 48 Ebola treatment centers in the country, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The CDC keeps a list of all the Ebola treatment centers in the U.S. and updates it weekly. Initially, there were just 35 Ebola treatment centers. Designated Ebola treatment centers have capabilities, training and resources to provide care to a person with Ebola with minimal risk to healthcare workers. Each hospital has been assessed on-site by a CDC Rapid Ebola Preparedness team. As of Jan. 8, there are now 48.
The most recent list includes the following 48 facilities:
California
- Kaiser Los Angeles Medical Center
- Kaiser Oakland (Calif.) Medical Center
- Kaiser South Sacramento (Calif.) Medical Center
- University of California Davis Medical Center (Sacramento)
- University of California Irvine Medical Center (Orange)
- University of California Los Angeles Medical Center
- University of California San Diego Medical Center
- University of California San Francisco Medical Center
Georgia
- Emory University Hospital; Atlanta
Illinois
- Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
- Northwestern Memorial Hospital (Chicago)
- Rush University Medical Center (Chicago)
- University of Chicago Medical Center
Maryland
- Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore)
- National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (Bethesda)
- University of Maryland Medical Center (Baltimore)
Massachusetts
- Baystate Medical Center (Springfield)
- Boston Children's Hospital
- Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston)
- UMass Memorial Medical Center (Worcester)
Minnesota
- Allina Health's Unity Hospital (Fridley)
- Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota - Saint Paul (Minn.) campus
- Mayo Clinic Hospital - Rochester (Minn.), Saint Marys Campus
- University of Minnesota Medical Center, West Bank campus (Minneapolis)
Nebraska
- Nebraska Medicine - Nebraska Medical Center (Omaha)
New York
- Montefiore Health System (New York City)
- New York-Presbyterian/Allen Hospital (New York City)
- North Shore System LIJ/Glen Cove (N.Y.) Hospital
- NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation/HHC Bellevue Hospital Center (New York City)
- The Mount Sinai Hospital (New York City)
New Jersey
- Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (New Brunswick)
Pennsylvania
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
- Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia)
- Lehigh Valley Health Network - Muhlenberg (Pa.) Campus
- Penn State Milton S. Hershey (Pa.) Medical Center
Texas
- University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (Texas)
- Methodist Hospital System in collaboration with Parkland Hospital System and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (Richardson)
- Texas Children's Hospital (Houston)
Virginia
- University of Virginia Medical Center (Charlottesville)
- Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center (Richmond)
Wisconsin
- Children's Hospital of Wisconsin (Milwaukee)
- Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin – Froedtert Hospital (Milwaukee)
- UW Health – University of Wisconsin Hospital, Madison, and the American Family Children's Hospital (Madison)
Washington, D.C.
- Children's National Medical Center
- George Washington University Hospital
- MedStar Washington Hospital Center
Washington
- Harborview Medical Center (Seattle)
- Seattle Children's Hospital