[3] In 2008, the hospital implemented a program in which critical care physician specialists are available to patients in the medical and surgical intensive care units 24 hours a day, eliminating ventilator-associated pneumonia, central line infections and pressure ulcers.

[5] One patient, Thomas Eric Duncan, who allegedly told healthcare workers there that he had recently traveled from Liberia, was not initially diagnosed with Ebola, but sent home.

Two nurses who had treated this patient, Nina Pham and Amber Joy Vinson, subsequently contracted Ebola.

Ms. Vinson had flown from Dallas to Ohio and back before she was diagnosed with Ebola, potentially exposing a number of other people to the disease in the meantime.

[citation needed] Exteriors of the 1966 hospital building were used extensively in the original nighttime drama Dallas.