Frederick MD Nursing Home Salmonella
A Salmonella outbreak at Homewood at Crumland Farms nursing home in Frederick, Maryland, has sickened eight people, including one resident who died after being hospitalized with the infection. The Frederick News Post quoted Frederick County Health Department and the nursing home's executive director as saying the outbreak started in July and has continued into November.
A second person hospitalized in the Homewood at Crumland Farms Salmonella outbreak has returned to the home, said Eric Nichols, Homewood's executive director. He said the person who died had other health complications.
A Salmonella outbreak at a nursing home is particularly risky because young children, the elderly and others with weakened immune systems are most susceptiple to severe illness. In the 2008-2009 peanut butter Salmonella outbreak that swept the United States, law firm PritzkerOlsen, P.A., represented the families of three older adults who died with the outbreak strain of Salmonella. The firm has recovered money for the survivors and is continuing to press wrongful death Salmonella lawsuits against parties responsible for the sale and distribution of contaminated peanut butter.
The Homewood Salmonella outbreak in Maryland is still under investigation and no source has yet been revealed.
Darlene Armacost, communicable disease program manager for the Frederick County Health Department, told Frederick News Post that the last onset of a case was in early November and, "We are still monitoring the situation." Health department officials have inspected Homewood repeatedly, Armacost said. The entire Environmental Health Services branch of the department, the section that inspects restaurants, has visited the kitchen many times, she said. Employees have been tested. The cause may never be known, she said.
