HHS announces last Ebola regional treatment center

The California Department of Public Health and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles will serve as the last of 10 regional treatment centers for patients with Ebola and other severe, highly infectious diseases, the Department of Health and Human Services announced yesterday. They are part of a national network of Ebola treatment centers and assessment hospitals with enhanced capabilities to treat patients with confirmed Ebola or other highly infectious diseases, created in the wake of the 2014 Ebola epidemic in West Africa and funded through an emergency congressional appropriation. The new center will receive $3.25 million through fiscal year 2019 to enhance and sustain those capabilities for patients in Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, and the Pacific island territories and freely associated states. The other regional centers were announced last year.