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Showing posts with label Georgia Veterans Affairs clinic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Georgia Veterans Affairs clinic. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Georgia Gazette Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Join host Rickey Bevington tonight for Georgia Gazette. On tonight's show… Skyrocketing health care costs in Georgia... a new reports explains why. Thousands of Georgia veterans at risk for HIV and other diseases. Is the VA to blame? We visit the Georgia Dome's first natural grass field.These stories and more tonight on Georgia Gazette at 6, 7 in Athens, re-broadcast at 11, hear our show any time at www.gpb.org/georgiagazette , and download a free podcast on iTunes.
Friday, June 5, 2009
Second HIV Patient At Augusta VA Clinic
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs now shows six former patients have tested positive for HIV since mistakes at VA hospitals in Tennessee, Florida and Georgia possibly exposed them to infections. An update on the VA's Web site shows a second patient at the ear, nose and throat clinic in Augusta, Ga., has tested positive for HIV. Three former colonoscopy patients at the VA hospital in Miami and one at the VA hospital in Murfreesboro, Tenn., have tested positive for HIV. The six are among about 10,000 former VA patients warned that they are at a "small risk of infection" due to equipment that wasn't properly cleaned or operated. Forty-five former patients have tested positive for hepatitis. Congressional hearings are set for June 16 and June 24.
(Associated Press)
(Associated Press)
Saturday, May 16, 2009
More Medical Mistakes at VA Clinics
Federal officials have been warning thousands of former patients they might have been exposed to infection at three Veterans Affairs facilities, yet other VA patients are not being warned about less serious mistakes with the same equipment at more than a dozen other VA centers.
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' chief patient safety officer declined to identify those facilities. Doctor Jim Bagian said those instances did not involve an infection risk. More than 10,400 former patients have been getting follow-up blood tests because of VA mistakes with equipment used in colonoscopies at Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and Miami and at the agency's Augusta ear, nose and throat clinic.
(Associated Press)
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' chief patient safety officer declined to identify those facilities. Doctor Jim Bagian said those instances did not involve an infection risk. More than 10,400 former patients have been getting follow-up blood tests because of VA mistakes with equipment used in colonoscopies at Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and Miami and at the agency's Augusta ear, nose and throat clinic.
(Associated Press)
Saturday, April 18, 2009
GA VA Patient Tests HIV Positive after Contamination
A patient at a Georgia Veterans Affair clinic has tested positive for HIV after being exposed to contaminated medical equipment.
The Department of Veterans Affairs says unverified tests show that this is the third person to have the virus that causes AIDS among thousands getting blood tests because equipment wasn’t properly sanitized. That’s one patient each from Murfreesboro Tennessee, Augusta Georgia, and a Miami medical facility.
The contaminated endoscopic machines exposed the patients to the body fluid of others.
The VA also said six tests have come back positive for Hepatitis B, and 19 positive tests for Hepatitis C among the three locations.
(Associated Press)
The Department of Veterans Affairs says unverified tests show that this is the third person to have the virus that causes AIDS among thousands getting blood tests because equipment wasn’t properly sanitized. That’s one patient each from Murfreesboro Tennessee, Augusta Georgia, and a Miami medical facility.
The contaminated endoscopic machines exposed the patients to the body fluid of others.
The VA also said six tests have come back positive for Hepatitis B, and 19 positive tests for Hepatitis C among the three locations.
(Associated Press)
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