VA warning letters to Carl Vinson MC

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"10 Feb 2022

Military.com | By Patricia Kime

"Roughly 4,000 patients at a Georgia Veterans Affairs hospital have been advised to get tested for several blood-borne viruses following concerns over the facility's sterilization procedures for reusable medical devices.

Veterans at the Carl Vinson VA Medical Center are being notified that they need to be tested for hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV following a discovery that the durable medical equipment used during their procedures "may not have received all the necessary steps for complete and safe reprocessing," according to press release sent to WMAZ-TV of Macon, Georgia.The medical center halted all medical procedures and operations from Jan. 12-14 over concerns about the sterilization process for reusable medical devices.

But any patient who had a dentistry, endoscopy, urology, podiatry, optometry or surgical procedure from Jan. 3-27 are being urged to get tested."

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/02/10/va-hospital-warns-thousands-of-vets-of-possible-infection-risk-improperly-cleaned-equipment.html