DALLAS -- Texas will create containment facilities in North Texas and Galveston to treat any future Ebola patients.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry said Tuesday that facilities in Galveston and the Dallas suburb of Richardson will take in any future patients diagnosed with the disease that has killed one person at a Dallas hospital and infected two nurses who treated him.
The Richardson unit will be hosted by Methodist Health System, which is turning over an entire hospital floor and modifying parts of the facility for decontamination and other needs.
UT Southwestern Medical Center will provide doctors trained in infectious disease and Parkland Hospital will provide nurses and other staff. Both hospitals are in Dallas.
The other unit will be at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, southeast of Houston.
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