Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas
| Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | Dallas, Texas, U.S. |
| Coordinates | 32°52′52″N 96°45′47″W / 32.881°N 96.763°WCoordinates: 32°52′52″N 96°45′47″W / 32.881°N 96.763°W |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | Non-Profit |
| Hospital type | General |
| Affiliated university | N/A |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Yes |
| Beds | 898 |
| History | |
| Founded | 1966 |
| Links | |
| Website | texashealth.org/dallas |
| Lists | Hospitals in U.S. |
Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas is a tertiary care facility in the United States, located in the Vickery Meadow area of Dallas, Texas. The hospital, which opened in 1966, has 898 beds and around 1,200 physicians. The hospital is the largest business within Vickery Meadow. 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.
The hospital received much criticism in 2014, after the Ebola incident. 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. When he continued to become sicker he returned to the hospital, where his Ebola was correctly diagnosed, but he died of the disease. 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.
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