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In Our View: Hospitals must be more diligent protecting public
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Jul 19, 2021
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Over the past few days, PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center has identified 10 patients in the hospital that have been confirmed with COVID-19 and have links to the same patient floor. Additionally, four employees have tested positive in relation to this investigation.
Of the 14 total COVID-positive cases, only five individuals are fully vaccinated. The only patients showing symptoms are those that are unvaccinated. Samples from this exposure are being submitted to the Washington Department of Health to test for the Delta variant.
Out of an abundance of caution, we are temporarily restricting visitors inside the hospital. Additionally, the identified patient floor has been closed to new admissions. All additional inpatients on the unit were tested or are in the process of being tested.
COVID-19 outbreak sickens patients, staff at PeaceHealth
Published: July 18, 2021, 4:30pm
Share: The PeaceHeath Southwest Medical Center emergency room. (The Columbian files)
An outbreak of COVID-19 traced to a patient floor at PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center has sickened at least 10 patients and four employees in the last few days, according to hospital and public health officials.
The hospital has isolated the floor, restricted new patient admissions to that floor, and begun testing the remaining patients there for COVID-19, officials said Sunday afternoon.
All of the patients were in the hospital for other medical reasons when they contracted COVID-19, according to Clark County Public Health.