Last year there was a similar problem at St. Agnes when the Centers for Disease Control said 12 patients got life-threatening infections after heart surgery. Three of those patients died. However, the CDC never found the source of the infections.
Abraham said "We submitted our findings to the CDC and they looked at it and said there was nothing we needed to do differently." And he insisted St. Agnes is a safe place to get medical treatment. "We do several surgeries every day at this hospital. We do over 400 cardiac surgeries per year so I would not consider this to be of concern. I would say this is a very safe place to be at."
St. Agnes has cancelled two cardiac surgeries in the last two days and it won't re-open until the State Health Department gives it the green light. The hospital's president says he has no idea how long that could that.
