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Hamilton ON: Outbreak at St. Joseph's Hospital

Re: Hamilton ON: Outbreak at St. Joseph's Hospital

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* Mon Jan 03 2011
St. Joe?s reports 12th C. diff-related death

Another patient with C. difficile at St. Joseph?s hospital has died, bringing the number of deaths during the current outbreak to 12.

While there were no new cases to report Monday, and the hospital believes the situation is improving, the death comes on the heels of the death of a 91-year-old woman on Thursday. Only one death so far has been directly attributed to C. diff, but eight remain under investigation.

The total number of C. diff cases rose to 83 late last week ? 51 cases in which the infection was acquired at the hospital and 32 who came in with it...
 
Re: Hamilton ON: Outbreak at St. Joseph's Hospital

Source: http://www.thespec.com/news/local/article/309153--more-c-diff-cases-at-st-joe-s

More C. diff cases at St. Joe?s

The number of C. difficile cases in St. Joseph?s hospital?s outbreak continues to climb, despite a slowdown last month.

Three new cases were discovered Tuesday, bringing the number to 87 cases since the C. diff outbreak started Oct. 1. Fifty-four of the cases were acquired in hospital and 33 were patients who came to hospital already with the infection...
 
Re: Hamilton ON: Outbreak at St. Joseph's Hospital

Source: http://www.thespec.com/news/local/a...affled-by-unexpected-increase-in-c-diff-cases

Hospital baffled by unexpected increase in C. diff cases

St. Joseph?s hospital officials are trying to figure out why they are still seeing more cases of C. difficile at a time when they were expecting new cases in the outbreak to decrease.

?We?ve been working on it,? said St. Joe?s president Dr. David Higgins. ?It?s a concern to us all ? we have to figure out why.?

After seeing the number of new cases go down significantly in December, the hospital started the first five days of January with five new cases in which the C. difficile was acquired while the patients were in hospital...
 
Re: Hamilton ON: Outbreak at St. Joseph's Hospital

Superbug claims 13th patient in Hamilton

2 hours, 24 minutes ago
By The Canadian Press

HAMILTON - The president of a Hamilton hospital is confirming the death of a 13th patient due to an outbreak of the C. difficile superbug.

Dr. David Higgins, who heads St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton, says the patient died Tuesday.

Higgins says that since the outbreak was declared Nov. 1, there have been 62 hospital-acquired cases.

He says there have also been another 37 cases that were acquired outside the hospital.


More...
http://ca.topmodel.yahoo.com/s/capress/110119/health/health_c_difficile_outbreak
 
Re: Hamilton ON: Outbreak at St. Joseph's Hospital

Source: http://www.thespec.com/news/local/article/480001--st-joe-s-records-14th-death-in-c-diff-outbreak


St. Joe?s records 14th death in C. diff outbreak
* Daniel Nolan
* Mon Jan 31 2011

The wife of a once prominent city politician and union leader has become the latest person infected with C. difficile to die at St. Joseph?s Hospital.

Elizabeth (Betty) Foley died at the hospital Monday morning. She is the 14th person with C. diff to die since an outbreak was declared by the public health unit at the beginning of November. There have been 103 cases to date, 64 hospital-related and 39 contracted from outside the Charlton Avenue East facility...
 
Re: Hamilton ON: Outbreak at St. Joseph's Hospital

Source: http://www.thespec.com/news/local/article/484445--c-diff-outbreak-declared-over-at-st-joe-s


C. diff outbreak declared over at St. Joe?s

* Joan Walters
* Fri Feb 11 2011

An outbreak of the superbug C. difficile was declared over Friday at St. Joseph?s Healthcare, where 16 infected patients died in a 3? month surge of more than 100 cases.

The hospital revised its C. diff patient death total to 16 from 14 Friday, part of an ongoing mortality review. Officials look closely at the death of any infected patient to try to determine whether C. diff caused the death, contributed to the death or had no impact.

Six of the deaths have been confirmed ?to be related? to C. diff, the hospital said.

Two deaths were found not to be related to the C. diff infection that the patients carried at the time they passed away. Eight deaths are still under investigation.

?There?s no doubt this was a major outbreak, the biggest we?ve had in Hamilton by far,? said Dr. Chris Mackie, an associate medical officer of health for Hamilton. ?As a comparison, the H1N1 pandemic killed eight people in Hamilton...?
 
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