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Alberta Health Minister Dave Han fired the board of one of the province's health regions Wednesday after a scathing report found bureaucratic turf wars and confusion led to a nightmarish compromise in patient safety.
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He made the comment after the province's Health Quality Council released its findings into reports of poor equipment sterilization and the outbreak of an antibiotic resistant superbug at St. Joseph's General Hospital in Vegreville, east of Edmonton, in March.
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The problems included medical tools sterilized with tap water, equipment being re-used after a quick wipe, scant training of staff, unsterilized equipment trucked around in employees' personal cars, dirty floor mats and window ledges, examination tables not wiped between patients and, in one hospital, a huge hole in the wall between the decontamination room and the sterilization room.

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The facility is run by volunteers and is known as a faith-based hospital. It works under a separate master agreement with the province. The East Central Health Region, however, also has responsibility under different legislation to run the hospital.

That was the wellspring of the problem, said Dr. John Cowell of the Health Quality Council.