These centers are staffed, equipped, and have been assessed to have current capabilities, training, and resources to provide the complex treatment necessary to care for a person with Ebola/Special Pathogens while minimizing risk to health care workers.
These hospitals have been identified as having the ability to safely receive and isolate a person under investigation for Ebola/Special Pathogens and care for the person until an Ebola/Special Pathogens diagnosis can be confirmed or ruled out and until discharge or transfer to a treatment center is complete.