Bellevue Readied for Ebola Patient With Upgraded Rooms

Bellevue Hospital Center, the oldest continuously operating hospital in the U.S., will be put to a new test by a young doctor who now lies ill in one of its four isolation units, confirmed as having Ebola.

The mid-town facility, one of eight hospitals designated by New York State as go-to centers to care for a potential Ebola patient, has upgraded its infectious disease unit over the past several weeks in preparation. Inside one is Craig Spencer, 33, a New York doctor who recently returned from West Africa, where he was infected with the deadly virus.