ST. PAUL — State officials say that they learned lessons from the Ebola diagnoses of two health care workers in Texas and that hospital systems in Minnesota are now revising their procedures for handling potential cases.

Health Commissioner Dr. Ed Ehlinger said at a news conference Friday that Minnesota hospitals plan to identify, isolate and stabilize any patients with Ebola and then move them to designated hospitals with expanded capabilities for treatment.

“The situation in Texas has taught us a lot,” Ehlinger said. “We’ve understood that it’s really the health care workers that are at the greatest risk, so that has helped us in terms of our planning with the hospitals.”

The state nurses union earlier this week called for advanced protective gear for health care workers.

Initially, officials thought every hospital would be able to treat patients with the virus. Ehlinger said any Minnesota hospital could handle early cases of the virus, but the later, more infectious stages would be treated at specialized facilities.