Health Department names facilities that got NECC products | al.com
MONTGOMERY, Alabama -- The Alabama Department of Public Health has released a list of Alabama health care facilities that received medications from a pharmacy associated with a fungal meningitis outbreak.
None of the medications shipped to Alabama by the New England Compounding Center are known to be infection causing or have proven to be tainted. However, the facilities and their patients are being notified out of an abundance of caution, state health officials said.
"Alabama health care facilities have had very limited exposure to NECC products, but individuals who have had certain medical procedures using these specific products are being notified," State Health Officer Don Williamson said.
"If you have had adverse reactions, contact your health care provider," Williamson said.
?The facilities are being asked to contact their patients if an NECC product was used on them after May 21.
The types of procedures where the drugs might have been used are back injections for pain, eye surgery, joint injections and types of heart surgery.
People who received NECC products are asked to watch for symptoms of infection for three months. Symptoms of fungal meningitis include headache, fever, sensitivity to light, stiff neck, new weakness or numbness, slurred speech, increased pain and redness or swelling at your injection site.
Symptoms of joint infections are fever, increased pain, redness and warmth or swelling at the injection site.
Nineteen Alabama residents have been exposed to contaminated steroids made by NECC, but Williamson said they were exposed during medical procedures performed in Tennessee and Florida.
The facilities that received NECC products are:
Andalusia Regional Hospital, Andalusia
Northeast Alabama Regional Medical Center, Anniston
Atmore Community Hospital, Atmore
Healthcare Authority for UAB Medical West, Bessemer
Alabama Pain Physicians, Birmingham
Baptist Medical Center-Princeton, Birmingham
Birmingham Surgery Center, Birmingham
Brookwood Medical Center, Birmingham
Children's Hospital, Birmingham
Ginsburg Dermatology Center, Birmingham
Montclair Dermatology, Birmingham
Premier Plastic Surgery Center-AL, Birmingham
Rousso Facial Plastic Surgery, Birmingham
St. Vincent's Hospital, Birmingham
St. Vincent's Hospital Outpatient Surgery, Birmingham
Trinity Medical Center, Birmingham
Veterans Medical Center-GALA, Birmingham
Cullman Regional Medical Center, Cullman
Parkway Medical Center, Decatur
Dothan Surgery Center, Dothan
Flowers Hospital, Dothan
Southeast Alabama Medical Center, Dothan
Southeast Eye Clinic, Dothan
Surgery Center South, Dothan
Medical Center Enterprise, Enterprise
Gulf Health Hospital, Fairhope
South Baldwin Regional Medical Center, Foley
North Alabama Medical Center--Coffee Campus, Florence
DeKalb Regional Medical Center, Fort Payne
Gadsden Regional Medical Center, Gadsden
Marion Regional Medical Center, Hamilton
Huntsville Hospital, Huntsville
Alabama Outpatient Surgery Center, Jasper
Alabama Orthopaedic Clinic, PC, Mobile
Mobile Infirmary, Mobile
Mobile Surgery Center, Mobile
Springhill Medical Center-Cardio, Mobile
Central Alabama Pain Management Center, Montgomery
Jackson Hospital and Clinic, Montgomery
The Surgery Center, Oxford
Bigelow Cosmetic Surgery Center, Scottsboro
Vaughan Regional Medical Center, Selma
Lanier Health Services, Valley
Brookwood Dermatology, Vestavia
Source: http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2012/10/health_department_names_facili_2.html
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