MRSA Notes

Ya know, I am very against frivilous lawsuits, and really lawsuits of any kind other than towards someone who has intentionally hurt you - but I am so glad to see that an attorney somewhere has been brave enough to take an MRSA case on.  Maybe it is because it is against a prison rather than a big hospital, but whatever the reason, maybe this will make people take some action to prevent MRSA.  I hate that it has to come to this, but…here we go!

County officials sued over inmate staph deaths - PittsburghLIVE.com

The families of two women who died from drug-resistant staph infections while incarcerated at the Allegheny County Jail sued the warden and other county officials on Tuesday for failing to provide medical care.

“They were told, ‘Quit complaining or we’re going to stick you in isolation,’” attorney William Goodrich said of the response the women got from jail officials when they asked for medical treatment.

The parents of Amy Sartori, 31, of Mt. Washington, and the sister of Valeriya Whetsell, 50, of Homewood, are seeking unspecified damages from Warden Ramon Rustin, county Chief Executive Dan Onorato, the county health department, Allegheny Correctional Health Services and two unnamed guards.

The women died within hours of each other March 21 from a lung infection caused by methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus — known as MRSA — an increasingly common organism often found in closed environments such as hospitals and prisons.

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