Last updated: April 5, 2014 6:37 a.m.
Elkhart medical center sued over tainted steroid shots
Associated Press
ELKHART – Seventy people have filed a lawsuit against a northern Indiana medical facility, saying they received contaminated steroid injections that caused them to contract fungal meningitis.
The Elkhart Truth reports that the lawsuit filed Wednesday in Elkhart County Superior Court seeks unspecified damages against Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Center of Northern Indiana in Elkhart.
The suit claims OSMC should have known about conditions at a Massachusetts pharmacy that was linked to an outbreak of fungal meningitis that sickened about 750 people in 20 states.
That pharmacy, the New England Compounding Center, shipped more than 17,600 doses of the pain injection implicated in the case.
“We believe this lawsuit is without merit and the responsible party at fault is New England Compounding Center,” OSMC spokeswoman Jaimie Wrigley said in an email to the newspaper.
The lawsuit alleges that clinics disregarded prevailing industry guidelines and state pharmacy regulations that require individual medications to be compounded in response to receiving a prescription from a particular patient. The lawsuit says the clinics did so for convenience and to save money.
Dawn Elliott, one of the women suing OSMC, told WSBT-TV the company should have done a better job making sure the drugs were safe.
“At first, I thought of them as just a victim in this, too, but they didn’t do their homework,” Elliot said.
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The Elkhart Truth reports that the lawsuit filed Wednesday in Elkhart County Superior Court seeks unspecified damages against Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Center of Northern Indiana in Elkhart.
The suit claims OSMC should have known about conditions at a Massachusetts pharmacy that was linked to an outbreak of fungal meningitis that sickened about 750 people in 20 states.
That pharmacy, the New England Compounding Center, shipped more than 17,600 doses of the pain injection implicated in the case.
“We believe this lawsuit is without merit and the responsible party at fault is New England Compounding Center,” OSMC spokeswoman Jaimie Wrigley said in an email to the newspaper.
The lawsuit alleges that clinics disregarded prevailing industry guidelines and state pharmacy regulations that require individual medications to be compounded in response to receiving a prescription from a particular patient. The lawsuit says the clinics did so for convenience and to save money.
Dawn Elliott, one of the women suing OSMC, told WSBT-TV the company should have done a better job making sure the drugs were safe.
“At first, I thought of them as just a victim in this, too, but they didn’t do their homework,” Elliot said.
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