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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