Northern Westchester Hospital responds to Hep C scare

July

As we reported online and in today’s newspaper, Northern Westchester Hospital sent out letters to 2,700 former surgical patients alerting them of possible exposure to Hepatitis C.

A surgical technician charged in Colorado with stealing syringes, injecting herself and putting them back for use on patients worked at the Mount Kisco hospital from October 2007 to February 2008. Kristen Diane Parker, 26, was an intravenous drug user and carrier of hepatitis C, a potentially dangerous virus linked to liver disease and cancer.

Read the full story and the response from Northern Westchester Hospital to the case in Colorado.

This entry was posted on Thursday, July 16th, 2009 at 12:36 pm by Candice Ferrette. Print This Post | Email This Post

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