New York State Department of Health- Ebola crisis

The New York State Department of Health has prepared guidelines in response to the current Ebola crisis. Visit http://www.health.ny.gov/disease/communicable/ebola/ for current information.

The Department of Health has identified 8 hospitals statewide to handle all patients diagnosed with Ebola, with plans to designate additional hospitals going forward. The following 8 hospitals have agreed to the designation and are creating isolation units to accept patients:

Mt. Sinai in Manhattan
New York Presbyterian in Manhattan
Bellevue in Manhattan
Montefiore in the Bronx
North Shore/LIJ Health System in Nassau County http://www.nslijalerts.com
Upstate University Hospital in Syracuse
University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester
Stony Brook University Hospital in Suffolk County

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