Dallas nurse Nina Pham contracted Ebola while caring for Thomas Eric Duncan, the first U.S. patient to die from the deadly disease . A hospital operator has denied allegations of poor training and improper preparation in seeking dismissal of a lawsuit by a nurse who contracted Ebola while caring for the first U.S. patient to die from the deadly disease. Texas Health Resources filed a response on Friday to the March 2 lawsuit by nurse Nina Pham, The Dallas Morning News reported Saturday. Pham, who remains employed at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas but has not returned to work, seeks unspecified damages in her lawsuit. A man visiting Dallas from Liberia, Thomas Eric Duncan, died October 8 at the hospital. Pham and another nurse caring for Duncan contracted Ebola but survived. Texas Health Resources spokesman Wendell Watson said in a statement Friday that the company and the hospital acted responsibly to protect their employees, basing their responses on the most up-to-date federal guidelines and with leading experts at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta. The hospital also respected Pham's privacy and acted only with her consent, the statement said. A doctor on October 16 videotaped Pham, who was in a hospital bed, in images later made public. 'Nina Pham has gone through the unprecedented challenge of being the first nurse to whom the Ebola virus was transmitted while caring for a patient with Ebola in the U.S.,' the statement said. A doctor video taped Nina Pham while she was in her hospital bed on October 16 and images (pictured) were later made public. The hospital says it respected Pham's privacy and only acted with her consent . 'Our care and compassion for Nina is paramount, and we will continue to show her the utmost courtesy, dignity and respect as a member of the Texas Health family,' the statement continued. Since Pham contracted the disease while working for the hospital as an intensive care nurse, her remedy should be a worker's compensation claim, not in civil court, the hospital's response said. 'I am disappointed but not surprised about the answer THR filed,' said Pham's attorney, Charla Aldous. 'My hope was that they would come clean and be honest about what happened so that the health care community can learn from the mistakes made,' Aldous added.
Texas Health Resources filed response to Nina Pham's March lawsuit Friday . Statement says hospital acted responsibly to protect employees . Hospital says it respected Pham's privacy and only acted with her consent . Because Pham contracted Ebola while working for the hospital, remedy should be worker's compensation claim, not civil court, hospital said .