A new sewage breach forced Venice Regional Bayfront Health to evacuate patients and wall off a section of the facility, according to an article on the Herald News Tribune website.
In July, Tennessee-based Community Health Systems allocated $4.3 million to improving aging infrastructure in the 60-year-old Florida facility.
With the new leak, the hospital cleaned up the water, removed wet baseboards and drywall, bleached the floors, and disinfected the rooms with ultraviolet treatment. In an effort to reduce noise disruption for patients, the facility walled off the area in which additional drywall work was necessary.
In an earlier incident, a burst pipe had sent feces-tainted water down the walls of the second floor post-surgical orthopedic wing and into an elevator. But instead of adequately cleaning the mess and notifying the proper officials, the hospital hired a contractor whose work left sanitary wipes and toilet paper exposed on a wet surface more than one month after the leak.
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