News Article: Patients Hospitalized After Getting Cleaning Solution During Dialy

[AnnieB]

This just happened at a dialysis center near St. Louis. Pretty scary.

http://www.kmov.com/news/local/7-patients-hospitalized-after-getting-wrong-solution-doin-182065731.html

 

[M3Riddler]

BREAKING NEWS:
7 Patients Hospitalized after Receiving Cleaning Solution During Dialysis Treatment
U.S. Renal Care at 13190 South Outer 40 Rd, ST.Louis


ST. LOUIS (KMOV) – Seven people were hospitalized after they were pumped cleaning solution during dialysis treatment at a local care center, according to the relative of one of the victims.
The incident happened at U.S. Renal Care at 13190 South Outer 40 Rd. on Monday. The facility was formerly known as Premiere Dialysis.
 
According to Tom Wineberg, who represents Renal Care, eight patients were receiving dialysis when they began feeling uncomfortable.

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7 Patients Hospitalized after Receiving Cleaning Solution During Dialysis Treatment 

///M3R


Edited: Merged with duplicate article - okarol/admin

[AnnieB]

I saw this too, and I live in St. Louis. Currently I'm still pre-D; but willl cross this facility off my list when the time comes.

 

[YLGuy]

Scary

[okarol]

Here's a related story:

Family outraged after patient hospitalized following contaminated dialysis treatment


by KMOV.com Staff / Angie Weidinger

Posted on December 4, 2012 at 9:53 PM

ST. LOUIS (KMOV.com) --  At least seven dialysis patients were rushed to local hospitals after contaminated water was used in their treatments.
News 4 spoke with family members of one of those patients who is now in intensive care at Missouri Baptist Hospital.
“I was in total shock!” said Andrea Dorsey whose sister, 67-year-old Shirley Wade was taken to the hospital. “How could that happen at a facility where they’re very, should be professionally staffed?”
What’s frustrating the family further is the fact the facility where this happened, U.S. Renal Care, isn’t giving them any answers.
“I’m just really upset,” Dorsey said. “I really feel for her because yesterday when I saw her she was in a lot of pain.”
Wade isn’t alone in her suffering. At least seven dialysis patients between the ages of 65 and 95 started feeling uncomfortable Monday during their treatments and were transported to area hospitals.
Dorsey says one of the nurses caring for her sister said some type of disenfectant got into the water.
“We brought her here from from Atlanta to get better treatment for her and now this is what happens,” she said. “I’m kind of wishing maybe we had left her there.”
U.S. Renal Care is located inside Cedars, a senior living facility. The statement from the facility’s legal counsel did not help to assuage concerns from family members or shed light on how the mistake happened.
“The cedars deeply regrets that anybody was hurt or suffered any kind of physical problem as a result of what occurred in the dialysis center,” said attorney Mark Rubin.
Calls from family members as well as News 4 to U.S. Renal Care went unanswered Tuesday.
“It’s just really crazy because again no cooperation from anyone and I hate to see my sister in that position too, as we can’t even tell her what happened,” Dorsey said. “We don’t know, and it’s sad.”
U.S. Renal Care did release a written statement saying what happened but not why or how.  News four will continue asking questions and will stay on top of this story.

http://www.kmov.com/home/Family-outraged-after-patient-hospitalized-following-contaminated-dialysis-treatment-182117851.html

[Rerun]

We all live at risk.  It is scary.

             

[sullidog]

I use to be a patient at a U.S renal care facility here and ohio and I left because I didn't like them, and now hearing about this, does not surprise me one bit about this company.

[AnnieB]

There was a followup article in today's paper:

http://www.stltoday.com/lifestyles/health-med-fit/health/kidney-dialysis-center-under-investigation-for-injecting-patients-with-cleanser/article_ac20b204-0fc8-5ad5-987b-48a3a26d5d5c.html?cid=print

And there was an article yesterday in another local paper:

http://townandcountry-manchester.patch.com/articles/cleaning-solution-human-error-source-of-dialysis-scare-contamination-u-s-renal-care

What I found especially alarming was the disparity in negative outcomes reported for this facility (see the St. Louis Post-Dispatch article). From the article;

"The local facilities had the worst patient death rates of any dialysis centers in the St. Louis area based on the most recent data available.

The Town and Country center from 2007 to 2010 had a patient death rate that was 88 percent higher than would be expected based on the patients’ ages and conditions. The Ferguson facility’s death rate was 91 percent higher than expected in the same time frame, according to a nationwide investigation by the nonprofit journalism organization ProPublica..."

The Federal Government is currently investigating, while dialysis patients are being rerouted to other centers for treatment.

 

[Simon Dog]

The contingency fee bar must be salivating over this one.