Source: Seattle Times, November 14, 2019
Posted on: https://www.advisen.com/
Seattle Children’s hospital said it is closing all operating rooms on its Seattle campus for at least five days in an effort to get a handle on a recurring mold problem that, since last year, has killed one patient and sickened at least six others.
The celebrated pediatric hospital’s continuing struggle to eradicate the mold comes as it faces a new claim of negligence. Seattle Children’s was sued late last month by the parents of a teenage boy who allege that the hospital’s mold problem caused an infection that left their son disabled. Read more.