article_snippet: D.C. The patient was flown in isolation from Sierra Leone on a chartered plane last week and arrived early on Friday morning.
article_snippet: A health care worker prepares a colleague's Ebola virus protective gear at a clinic operated by the International Medical Corps in Makeni, Sierra Leone.  
article_snippet: The person is a clinician working with Partners in Health, a Boston-based nonprofit organization.
article_snippet: a clinician working with Partners in Health, a Boston-based nonprofit organization has been treating patients in Liberia and Sierra Leone since November.
article_snippet: the hospital said the hospital would receive a fifth person who was part of the initial exposure in Sierra Leone later on Monday.
article_snippet: A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention spokesman said that besides the patient at NIH, there are 11 other Partners in Health workers being brought to the United States for monitoring.
article_snippet: That includes four going to Atlanta to be near Emory University Hospital; one arrived Friday.
article_snippet: On Saturday, four health care workers arrived at the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, and three arrived in the Washington area on Sunday to be near the NIH campus in Bethesda.
article_snippet: CDC workers in Sierra Leone are involved in investigating the illness of the first patient, including looking for other people the person was in contact with.
article_snippet: It's possible other people will be transported to the United States for monitoring, said the spokesman, Tom Skinner.= .