Stateline Hospitals Receive Drug Shipments from Company Linked To Fungal Meningitis Outbreak
By: Alex de Leon
Updated: October 26, 2012
The Food and Drug Administration says seven Stateline hospitals have medication linked to a deadly nationwide outbreak.
Those hospitals are: OSF Saint Anthony, Beloit Memorial Hospital, KSB Hospital in Dixon, Rockford Health Physicians, FHN Hospital, Kishwaukee Community Hospital, St. Mary's Janesville Hospital. The FDA says they received shipments from the Massachusetts company that made the steroid infected with fungal meningitis.
So far, two dozen people have died and hundreds more across the U.S. were sick. "[I] want to clarify for the community" says Jim Jansen, Director of Pharmacy at OSF, "even though we did purchase two products from this company those two products were not injectable dosage pharms."
So far, no one has gotten sick from fungal meningitis at any of the hospitals listed in the FDA report.
Those hospitals are: OSF Saint Anthony, Beloit Memorial Hospital, KSB Hospital in Dixon, Rockford Health Physicians, FHN Hospital, Kishwaukee Community Hospital, St. Mary's Janesville Hospital. The FDA says they received shipments from the Massachusetts company that made the steroid infected with fungal meningitis.
So far, two dozen people have died and hundreds more across the U.S. were sick. "[I] want to clarify for the community" says Jim Jansen, Director of Pharmacy at OSF, "even though we did purchase two products from this company those two products were not injectable dosage pharms."
So far, no one has gotten sick from fungal meningitis at any of the hospitals listed in the FDA report.
Comments
Maybe "injectable dosage FORMS"?? Pharms makes no sense. NO hospital in the FDA report had ill patients from the fungal contamination? OR is this referring to the local hospitals? Hundreds across the country ARE sick. Some WERE sick, but some of those are dead.
Does anybody proof-read, or edit this stuff? Just wondering :)
Jill J.
October 25, 2012 at 8:54 pm
