No patients, employees harmed in Erlanger NICU after cleaning fluid leak causes ceiling tile to fall

Staff photo by John Rawlston/Chattanooga Times Free Press - Two-day-old Elana Louise Rogers grips the finger of her mother, Heather Rogers, in the NICU unit at Erlanger Medical Center.
Staff photo by John Rawlston/Chattanooga Times Free Press - Two-day-old Elana Louise Rogers grips the finger of her mother, Heather Rogers, in the NICU unit at Erlanger Medical Center.

No babies in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, or NICU, at Children's Hospital at Erlanger were exposed to a cleaning fluid leak that caused a ceiling tile to fall Friday morning, hospital officials said.

The event prompted a response from the Chattanooga Fire Department but didn't require their services, a fire department spokesperson said.

Some of the liquid fell on three employees, who washed off and changed clothes.

Babies in the affected pod, which is currently under repair, were moved to another and their families were notified, officials said.

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