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Deadly bacteria closes NICU for second time in months at Md. hospital
Officials from the Prince George's Hospital Center brief reporters during an evacuation of the neonatal intensive care unit earlier this year.
By Arelis R. Hern?ndez November 2 at 4:16 PM
The Prince George?s Hospital Center is closing its neonatal intensive care unit for the second time this year following another bacterial outbreak among its patients.
Dimensions Health Care Systems, the nonprofit organization that runs the hospital, said in a statement on Wednesday that all five tiny patients will be transferred from the unit after two were found to have tested positive for the Pseudomonas bacterium.
?At this time there is no environmental indication or defined cause for the latest bacterium presence,? Dimensions said in the statement...
Deadly bacteria closes NICU for second time in months at Md. hospital
Officials from the Prince George's Hospital Center brief reporters during an evacuation of the neonatal intensive care unit earlier this year.
By Arelis R. Hern?ndez November 2 at 4:16 PM
The Prince George?s Hospital Center is closing its neonatal intensive care unit for the second time this year following another bacterial outbreak among its patients.
Dimensions Health Care Systems, the nonprofit organization that runs the hospital, said in a statement on Wednesday that all five tiny patients will be transferred from the unit after two were found to have tested positive for the Pseudomonas bacterium.
?At this time there is no environmental indication or defined cause for the latest bacterium presence,? Dimensions said in the statement...