--- description: Ebola nurse Nina Pham contracted the virus in October while treating the first U.S. patient. title: American Ebola Nurse Sues Texas Hospital Where She Contracted Virus image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Health](/section/health/) ## Health Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [ebola](/tag/ebola/) ## ebola Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # American Ebola Nurse Sues Texas Hospital Where She Contracted Virus  by [Jack Linshi](/author/jack-linshi/)  ## Jack Linshi Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 1, 2015 5:34 PM CUT  by [Jack Linshi](/author/jack-linshi/)  ## Jack Linshi Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 1, 2015 5:34 PM CUT The [nurse](http://time.com/time-person-of-the-year-ebola-nurses/ "undefined") who was the first known person to contract Ebola on American soil [will sue](http://res.dallasnews.com/interactives/nina-pham/ "undefined") the hospital where she contracted the virus. Nina Pham, 26, told the Dallas _Morning News_ that the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas and its parent company, Texas Health Resources, failed to provide her and her colleagues adequate training and protection while she cared for Thomas Eric Duncan, who was the first patient diagnosed in the U.S. during the outbreak. As a result, Pham said, she was made into “a symbol of corporate neglect—a casualty of a hospital system’s failure to prepare for a known and impending medical crisis.” [Read more at the ](http://res.dallasnews.com/interactives/nina-pham/ "undefined")[_Morning News_](http://res.dallasnews.com/interactives/nina-pham/ "undefined") **MORE:** [Read the Ebola Nurses’ Stories](http://time.com/time-person-of-the-year-ebola-nurses/ "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3727603/ebola-nina-pham-lawsuit/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3727603/ebola-nina-pham-lawsuit/"},"headline":"American Ebola Nurse Sues Texas Hospital Where She Contracted Virus","datePublished":"2015-03-01T17:34:22.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T04:49:04.366Z","description":"Nina Pham contracted Ebola while treating the first U.S. Ebola patient","url":"https://time.com/3727603/ebola-nina-pham-lawsuit/","keywords":["ebola"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jack Linshi","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/jack-linshi/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/ebola/","name":"ebola"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3727603/ebola-nina-pham-lawsuit/","name":"American Ebola Nurse Sues Texas Hospital Where She Contracted Virus"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Ebola Fighters in the U.S. - TIME's Person of the Year 2014","description":"Dr. Kent Brantly and other health care workers talk about surviving Ebola","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/SBg4j1BY/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-12-10T11:44:12.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/SBg4j1BY.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3727603/ebola-nina-pham-lawsuit/","duration":"PT6M15S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3727603/ebola-nina-pham-lawsuit/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```