A list of facilities that purchased steroid injections from a company linked to a deadly nationwide fungal meningitis outbreak has been released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Health care providers are being urged to contact all patients who received any type of injectable from New England Compounding Center since May.

Among the area health providers on the list of 64 Ohio facilities are:

• Bidwell Surgery Center, 5950 Innovation Drive, Middletown
• Southwest Ohio Ambulatory Surgery Center, 295 N. Breiel Blvd., Middletown
• Cincinnati Eye Institute, 3219 Clifton Ave., Suite 210, Cincinnati
• Cincinnati Eye Institute, 1945 CEI Drive, Cincinnati
• Cincinnati Pain Management, 8261 Cornell Road, Unit 630, Cincinnati
• Greater Cincinnati Pain Management, 4243 Hunt Road, Cincinnati
• Medical Weight Management Center, 9050 Montgomery Road, Cincinnati
• Physicians HealthSource, Inc., 3328 Westbourne Drive, Cincinnati
• Professional Radiology, 9825 Kenwood Road, Suite 105, Blue Ash
• The Christ Hospital Spine Surgery Center, 4020 Smith Road, Cincinnati
• Western Hills Interventional Pain, 6460 Harrison Ave., Suite 3, Cincinnati

The list includes any provider who bought a NECC product since May 21, 2012, even topical products, which the FDA has indicated are low- or no-risk products for fungal meningitis.

“At this time, ODH does not have a count on the number of patients that received drugs in the expanded recall list. Since this investigation is changing so rapidly, it’s critical that Ohioans who received these injections or solutions be informed and watch closely for any change in how they are feeling,” said ODH Director, Ted Wymyslo.

Local health departments are being tasked with calling each facility in their jurisdiction and supporting those facilities with patient outreach. ODH expects every patient who received a recalled injection to be contacted.

The medication at the center of the recall is a widely distributed steroid medication used to treat back pain and is administered by injection. Medication provided by NECC may be contaminated with a fungus that has led to some patients to develop a rare form of fungal meningitis and stroke.

Unlike bacterial or viral meningitis, fungal meningitis cannot be spread person-to-person. Ohio currently has seven cases of fungal meningitis all linked to back injections with steroids distributed by NECC. There have been no deaths in Ohio.