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These are the hospitals you want to go to if you get Ebola

If Ebola in the U.S. did one thing, it made hospitals prepared for the worst, […]

If Ebola in the U.S. did one thing, it made hospitals prepared for the worst, with Dallas Presbyterian having the misfortune of being a cautionary tale.

According to the CDC, state health officials have identified and designated 35 hospitals with Ebola treatment centers, with more expected in the coming weeks.

Hospitals with Ebola treatment centers have been designated by state health officials to serve as treatment facilities for Ebola patients based on a collaborative decision with local health authorities and the hospital administration.

The hospitals will supplement the three national bio containment facilities at Emory University Hospital, Nebraska Medical Center and the NIH, which will continue to play a major role in “overall national treatment strategy, particularly for patients who are medically evacuated from overseas.” Facilities will continue to be added in the next several weeks to further broaden geographic reach, the CDC said.

The 35 hospitals with Ebola treatment centers to date are:

— Kaiser Oakland Medical Center; Oakland, California
— Kaiser South Sacramento Medical Center; Sacramento
— University of California Davis Medical Center; Sacramento
— University of California San Francisco Medical Center
— Emory University Hospital; Atlanta,
— Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
— Northwestern Memorial Hospital; Chicago
— Rush University Medical Center; Chicago
— University of Chicago Medical Center
— Johns Hopkins Hospital; Baltimore
— University of Maryland Medical Center; Baltimore
— National Institutes of Health Clinical Center; Bethesda
— Allina Health’s Unity Hospital; Fridley, Minnesota
— Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota; St. Paul
— Mayo Clinic Hospital; Minneapolis, Minnesota
— University of Minnesota Medical Center, West Bank Campus, Minneapolis; Rochester
— Nebraska Medicine; Omaha
— North Shore System LIJ/Glen Cove Hospital; Glen Cove, New York
— Montefiore Health System; New York City
— New York-Presbyterian/Allen Hospital; New York City
— NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation/HHC Bellevue Hospital Center
— Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital; New Brunswick, New Jersey
— The Mount Sinai Hospital; New York City
— Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia;
— Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia
— University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
— Methodist Hospital System in collaboration with Parkland Hospital System and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center; Richardson, Texas
— University of Virginia Medical Center; Charlottesville
— Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center; Richmond
— 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
— MedStar Washington Hospital Center; Washington, DC
— Children’s National Medical Center; Washington DC
— George Washington University Hospital; Washington DC

Those hospitals have been determined to well equipped with an informed staff on how to treat the infection, as determined the the CDC’s Rapid Ebola Preparedness team.

More than 80 percent of returning travelers from Ebola-stricken countries live within 200 miles of an Ebola treatment center. During their active monitoring, state or local public health authorities communicate every day with potentially exposed individuals to check for symptoms and fever for the 21 day incubation period of the Ebola virus.

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