The entrance to Legacy Mount Hood Medical Center. Hospital officials are contacting patients who may have acquired infections while receiving care that required intravenous anesthesia.Mark Graves/The Oregonian
Weeks after undergoing a medical procedure that required intravenous anesthesia at Legacy Mount Hood Medical Center in Gresham, Anthony Laszlo was perplexed to find a letter in the mail from the hospital suggesting that he might have exposed other patients to an infectious disease.
Laszlo said his primary care doctor followed up with a phone call in early June, about three weeks after the procedure.
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