COVID-19 outbreak at the Misericordia Community Hospital in Edmonton could help put a stop to “recurring” outbreaks in the province’s primary health-care facilities.Dr.
Joe Vipond, an emergency room doctor at Rocky View Hospital, is calling on Alberta Health to release both the clinical review and quality assurance review of the June coronavirus outbreak at the Misericordia, which resulted in 58 cases and 11 deaths, as a means of dealing with current and future outbreak situations.“That outbreak lasted about a month, it closed down the hospital, there were 11 deaths associated with that,” Vipond said.“And we know that somewhere in our health care system, someone’s taking a look at a root cause analysis to try and figure out what happened.