COVID-19 outbreak sickens patients, staff at PeaceHealth
Published: July 18, 2021, 4:30pm
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The PeaceHeath Southwest Medical Center emergency room. (The Columbian files)
An outbreak of COVID-19 traced to a patient floor at PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center has sickened at least 10 patients and four employees in the last few days, according to hospital and public health officials.
The hospital has isolated the floor, restricted new patient admissions to that floor, and begun testing the remaining patients there for COVID-19, officials said Sunday afternoon.
All of the patients were in the hospital for other medical reasons when they contracted COVID-19, according to Clark County Public Health.