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Charleston Hospital Faces Additional Lawsuits Alleging Bacteria In Water Caused Infections In Surgery Patients

January 21, 2022

The Post and Courier reported in December 2021 that breast cancer survivors who had surgery at Roper Hospital (Roper) in Charleston, South Carolina filed lawsuits in November 2021 alleging that they developed non-tuberculous mycobacteria infections following breast reconstruction surgery at Roper. N[...]

Unmasked OB Spreads Devastating Infection To Mother During Baby’s Delivery

December 6, 2020

A medical malpractice claim has been filed against a Tel Aviv, Israel OB for allegedly spreading his group A Streptococcus (“Strep A”) infection to the patient whose baby he was delivering because he failed to wear a mask during the delivery. The 39-year-old woman was delivered by vacuum[...]

Recent Study Focused On Reducing Infections In Nursing Homes

March 26, 2015

In a study recently published online in JAMA Internal Medicine, the researchers found that a multimodal targeted infection program (“TIP”) implemented in nursing homes reduces the overall prevalence of multidrug-resistant organisms (“MDROs”) and infections in nursing home r[...]

Maryland Surgery Center Closed Due To Infections

September 22, 2012

A cosmetic surgery center located in Baltimore County, Maryland that refers to itself as a “med spa” was forced to close on September 19, 2012 by the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (“DHMH”) and the Baltimore County Department of Health after three of its lip[...]

Virginia Medical Malpractice Claim For Alleged IV Infection

April 9, 2012

A woman in Virginia filed a medical malpractice case in late March, 2012 against a local hospital in which she claims she acquired a serious blood infection due to the use of an intravenus catheter (IV) that became contaminated while she was in the hospital in 2010 for treatment of a partial [...]

C. Difficile Infections

March 11, 2012

C. difficile (Clostridium difficile) infections remain one of the most serious and common healthcare-associated infections (“HAI”). In recent years, efforts in the U.S. to address and reduce HAIs in hospitals have met with some success, except for C. difficile infections. One reason f[...]

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