Pain Clinic In EG Linked To Meningitis Outbreak
Ocean State Pain Management, which administered contaminated steroid injections, has an office on South County Trail.
Three people have been diagnosed in Rhode Island so far with fungal meningitis in connection to the nationwide fungal meningitis outbreak from steroid injections made by New England Compounding Center in Framingham, Mass. All three received injections from Ocean State Pain Management, which has offices in East Greenwich and Woonsocket. The third person was a Warwick man in his 50s who received a spinal epidural injection at Ocean State Pain Management on Sept. 22 from one of three contaminated lots, according to the R.I. Department of Health. The patient sought care at an area hospital on Nov. 5 and is being treated. The other two cases were a woman in her 60s from Lincoln who had received spinal epidural injections on Aug. 31 and Sept. …
