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Two c. diff cases at NOTL
Both are patients transferred from St. Catharines General
By Penny Coles
Posted 5 hours ago
There are currently two cases of C. difficile at the Niagara-on-the-Lake Hospital.
Both are patients who were transferred from the St. Catharines General.
The first person to be transferred was on April 27, and had been confirmed as suffering from c. difficile, says Frank Demizio, the Niagara Health System's vice-president of patient services.
The second was in June, after the outbreak was declared at the St. Catharines site. That patient was suspected to have the infection but it had not been confirmed at that point.
Both were kept in isolation when transferred and precautions to prevent the spread of the disease were taken.
He told the Advance Tuesday that the two patients at the NOTL site were community-related.
But when questioned again Wednesday, he said both had been transferred from St. Catharines.
The majority of the patients in the 22 beds at the NOTL Hospital are elderly, with complex conditions, he said, and agreed that those are the patients most vulnerable to c. difficile, which causes diarrhea and has proven deadly in elderly patients with other conditions. But the precautions that have been taken to prevent the spread of the disease at the NOTL site are working, he said?there have been no new cases since the transfer of the two patients.
The patients were transferred because they no longer needed the acute care they were receiving in St. Catharines...
Two c. diff cases at NOTL
Both are patients transferred from St. Catharines General
By Penny Coles
Posted 5 hours ago
There are currently two cases of C. difficile at the Niagara-on-the-Lake Hospital.
Both are patients who were transferred from the St. Catharines General.
The first person to be transferred was on April 27, and had been confirmed as suffering from c. difficile, says Frank Demizio, the Niagara Health System's vice-president of patient services.
The second was in June, after the outbreak was declared at the St. Catharines site. That patient was suspected to have the infection but it had not been confirmed at that point.
Both were kept in isolation when transferred and precautions to prevent the spread of the disease were taken.
He told the Advance Tuesday that the two patients at the NOTL site were community-related.
But when questioned again Wednesday, he said both had been transferred from St. Catharines.
The majority of the patients in the 22 beds at the NOTL Hospital are elderly, with complex conditions, he said, and agreed that those are the patients most vulnerable to c. difficile, which causes diarrhea and has proven deadly in elderly patients with other conditions. But the precautions that have been taken to prevent the spread of the disease at the NOTL site are working, he said?there have been no new cases since the transfer of the two patients.
The patients were transferred because they no longer needed the acute care they were receiving in St. Catharines...
