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Trinity Regional Health System, tardy in reporting hepatitis A
cases this summer to the Rock Island County Health Department, has
reimbursed the local government $80,000 for expenses managing an
outbreak of the disease. The Rock Island County
Sheriff’s Department concluded that the health
system and the Metropolitan Medical Laboratory did not notify the
Health Department about the cases in the time frame required by
law. The problem grew when, because an employee was on vacation,
the Health Department was slow in processing the reports. The
Health Department inoculated more than 5,300 residents against the
disease, and Trinity Medical Center treated some of the estimated
32 patients stricken with hepatitis A in July and August. The
outbreak was traced to an area Mc...
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