1 dead after potentially fatal disease found in Mount Carmel Grove City water

A medical system in central Ohio is under fire for the second time this year after making several patients sick and potentially even killing one.

The newly opened Mount Carmel Grove City hospital has been ordered to test and clean its waterlines, ice machines, and on-site cooling towers after seven patients were diagnosed with potentially fatal Legionnaires’ disease. One of those seven patients diagnosed following recent treatment at Mount Carmel Grove City has died.

The exact cause of death has yet to be determined and out of respect for the patient’s privacy and privacy laws, the hospital is not releasing the person’s identity, reports 10TV.

The first Mount Carmel Grove City patient diagnosed with Legionnaires’ was admitted to the hospital the day after it opened on April 29.

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Mount Carmel has been ordered to submit test results and a water management plan to the Health Department or state Health Director Amy Acton will see to it that the hospital ceases accepting patients.

Bottled water is being used in the meantime

Mount Carmel spokeswoman Samantha Irons said in a statement that the hospital is running additional tests on its water sources. State and Franklin County health officials also conducted an environmental assessment at Mount Carmel over the weekend, reports NBC4i.

The Mount Carmel statement also added that if anyone who has been treated at the facility experiences Legionnaires’ Disease symptoms like a cough, muscle aches, headaches or shortness of breath should contact their primary care physician.

Earlier this year, the Mount Carmel system was under fire after discovering that one of its doctors had been prescribing amounts of painkillers so high that it killed 29 patients.

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