Re: Hospital to close in August for mold fumigation

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Thanks Darlene, if this mold fumigation works it seams most if not

all hospitals could use a good dose.

--- In , Darlene <darlenesb2000@...>

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> Hospital to close in August for mold fumigation

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> By Tom Kisken

> tkisken@...

> Originally published 01:17 p.m., June 14, 2007

> Updated 01:17 p.m., June 14, 2007

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> St. 's Regional Medical Center in Oxnard would start slowing

down operations in late July as part of a possible 10-day August

closure to fumigate for mold, hospital officials said.

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> A final decision on closure hasn't been made and hinges on

finalizing negotiations with a company called Sabre Technical

Services that would use chlorine dioxide gas to fight the mold,

officials said. The 265-bed hospital's parent company, Catholic

Healthcare West, also needs to sign off and is scheduled to consider

the plan in a board meeting on June 27.

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> Hospital spokeswoman Rita O'Connor said Thursday that officials

don't expect any barriers to the closure.

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> St. 's is the county's busiest hospital and its emergency room

saw more than 45,000 patients last year, creating concern about how

the closure will affect patients and other hospitals.

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> " Where are the patients going to go? " asked o Juarez, ceo of

Clinicas Camino del Real, which operates clinics in west Ventura

County for low-income people. He worries about everything from

emergency room patients not getting the care they need to the

bilingual capabilities of other hospitals.

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> " It's huge, " he said of the closing.

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> Hospital officials say they've been working with area hospitals and

government agencies to prepare for the possible closure and make sure

patients would still get what they need.

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> This week, hospital officials provided more information on the

timing of the closure. They reiterated the hospital would close on

Aug. 14. It would reopen on Aug. 24 pending an evaluation by the

state Department of Health Services. The emergency room would stop

accepting patients earlier, on Aug. 8.

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> Other key dates include:

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> n July 29: No more admissions of patients undergoing physical

rehabilitation.

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> n Aug. 6: No more admissions of elective patients to medical and

surgical units. Emergency admissions would continue until Aug. 8.

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> n Aug. 10: Probable end of admissions to the hospital's obstetrics

department and the neonatal intensive care unit. A final decision is

expected by end of June.

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> n Aug. 14: Any remaining patients would be transferred and the

hospital would close.

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> n Aug. 16-17: The hospital would be tented.

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> n Aug. 18: Chlorine dioxide would be distributed for 12 to 14

hours. Afterward, the gas would be neutralized in a process called

scrubbing.

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> n Aug. 19: The tent would be removed.

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> All food and medications would be removed from the hospital before

the fumigation, along with some medical and surgical supplies and

equipment.

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> The hospital's adjacent medical office building would be sealed off

from the hospital but would close the night of Aug. 17 and reopen the

morning of Aug. 20.

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> http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2007/jun/14/st_johns_close/

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[Guest guest]

who: your welcome. I found it an interesting article. Hope they follow up

after the fumigation. Darlene

Thanks Darlene, if this mold fumigation works it seams most if not

all hospitals could use a good dose.

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[Guest guest]

It's interesting that they are chosing a challenging month to do

fumagation in. I assume on purpose..?

--- In , Darlene <darlenesb2000@...>

wrote:

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> Hospital to close in August for mold fumigation

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> By Tom Kisken

> tkisken@...

> Originally published 01:17 p.m., June 14, 2007

> Updated 01:17 p.m., June 14, 2007

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Carl,just regarding mold/myco's, not other chemicals or bacteria,

basicly it wouldn't stop me from hsveing the nose to brain kindling

siezures when I go there but might help keep me from ending up in bed

for 2 weeks with reaccuring infections. what about inhaleing the dead

mold spores with myco's involved. I could still end up with the

delayed reaction of myco's in the lungs getting absorbed into blood

affecting the cns. kind of like in my first home where the mold would

dry out between rains.

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[Guest guest]

sorry Carl, got sidetracked, basically wondering if myco's are

attached to/or in mold spores if they would be released when mold

spore dies or not? not that it would matter much of myco's were

already in the environment but would be interesting to know.

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