SEATTLE — Seattle Children’s Hospital will have to pay out $215,000 to three families over former child patients who were exposed to aspergillus mold in operating rooms during heart surgery.
The lawsuit was first filed in 2019, claiming that Seattle Children’s exposed patients to mold in operating rooms due to building maintenance negligence. That was after the hospital’s CEO had admitted that numerous patients had been sickened by aspergillus mold since 2001, seven of whom had died.
Plaintiffs further allege that the hospital subjected their children to painful anti-fungal treatments as a result of the aspergillus exposures.
