COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—The Colorado health department has signed off on correctional plans for two dialysis centers that each treated a patient with an artificial kidney belonging to someone else.
Health officials investigated the Pikes Peak and Printers Place centers in Colorado Springs in May after learning two patients were treated with the wrong dialyzer.
The Gazette reports that one patient was treated with a dialyzer belonging to a patient infected with Hepatitis C, and another was treated with one used by a patient infected with methicillin-resistant staph, or MRSA (MUR-suh).
Denver-based DaVita owns both dialysis centers. Dr. Robert Provenzano of DaVita says three employees, not just two, will now check patients’ dialyzers.
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Information from: The Gazette,
