University Hospital President and CEO John Kastanis resigned Thursday amid a deadly bacterial outbreak at the hospital’s neonatal intensive-care unit.
Four premature babies in the neonatal ICU have contracted the Acinetobacter baumannii bacteria since September, three of whom died, according to public health officials.
The New Jersey Department of Health required University Health to employ a full-time infection prevention consultant in October. No new NICU infections have been confirmed since then, officials said.
The outbreak of the hospital-acquired infection also prompted a response from Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, who called for an overhaul of leadership.
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