2,400 Patients May Have Been Exposed to HIV and Hepatitis at Oregon Hospitals: Officials

‘Comprehensive infection control practices may not have been followed by a physician during some procedures,’ a statement reads.

Nurses care for a patient in the intensive care unit in a file photo. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Health care providers in the Portland, Oregon, area said Thursday that 2,400 patients should get blood tests because an anesthesiologist may have exposed them to HIV as well as hepatitis B and C in recent months.

In a statement, Providence Health said that it “recently learned that Providence’s comprehensive infection control practices may not have been followed by a physician during some procedures” at several hospitals, including Providence Portland Medical Center, Providence Willamette Falls Medical Center, and “other non-Providence hospitals.”