Mayo Clinic to Send Letters to More Than 3,000 After Hepatitis Scare
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- The Mayo Clinic CEO announced this afternoon that the hospital will send out letters to 3,209 patients worldwide who may have been infected by a former employee. |
Mayo: 3,209 Patients In 'Circle Of Risk'
The Mayo Clinic says one of its employees has been linked to three patients' cases of hepatitis C. JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- The Mayo Clinic said at a news conference Thursday afternoon it has identified 3,209 patients in the "circle of risk" of contracting hepatitis C from an employee who they said diverted drugs more than three years ago. |
Mayo IDs 3,209 Patients In 'Circle Of Risk'
The Mayo Clinic says one of its employees has been linked to three patients' cases of hepatitis C. JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- The Mayo Clinic said said at a news conference Thursday afternoon it has identified 3,209 patients in the "circle of risk" of contracting Hepatitis C from an employee who they said diverted drugs more than three years ago. |
Mayo urges tests for more than 3,000 in hepatitis fallout
Mayo Clinic’s world-renowned reputation is serving as both an asset and obstacle in efforts to determine the reach of a hepatitis increase tied to a former employee at its Jacksonville location. Mayo administrators invoked the medical provider’s lofty reputation often during news conferences, particularly when they sought to distance the organization from the worker’s actions. But that eminence ... |
Mayo patient worried about Hep C
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A local woman is scared she is one of the 3,209 patients the Mayo Clinic says may have been infected with Hepatitis C. |
3,209 patients at risk of Hepatitis C
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Patients who were treated at the Mayo Clinic or St. Luke's Hospital as far back as October, 2004 may have been infected with Hepatitis C. |
Hepatitis C suspect must wear ankle monitor
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- The radiology technologist at the center of the Mayo Clinic's Hepatitis C investigation will have to wear an ankle monitor while out of jail on bond. |
Fitch Rates Jacksonville, FL's Special Rev Bonds 'AA'; Outlook Stable
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fitch Ratings assigns a rating of 'AA' to the following Jacksonville, Florida special revenue bonds: --$51,690,000 series 2010A-1; --$40,865,000 taxable series 2010A-2 (direct payment Build America Bonds). The Rating Outlook is Stable. The bonds are scheduled to sell via negotiation on Sept. 15. In addition, Fitch affirms the following ratings with a Stable Outlook ... |
Even with hepatitis C, patient was grateful for heart transplant
Near the end of last year, Peggy Scott’s Mayo Clinic physicians were getting concerned. The Alabama woman had been on the list for a heart transplant for more than six months. After decades of surgeries, doctors were out of other options for fixing the thick, weak heart she was born with. Still, there was no heart donor match as Scott lived for months in Jacksonville, just to be close enough to ... |
USF Alzheimer's center rising above shortcomings in research
A panel found results disappointing nationwide but recommended a course USF already follows. |
