The five got sick in mid June and Queen's Medical Center confirmed they had swine flu.
"We are mirroring the community," said Cindy Kamikawa, Vice President of Nursing at Queen's. "it's a flu outbreak and we are seeing different types of flu and one of them is H1N1."
Kamikawa said the five doctors and nurses are healthy and can return to work. She's confident the virus was not passed on to patients but the hospital is now regularly checking staff for fevers, something it didn't do before.
"When we came to work this morning, one of the nurses on staff took everyone's temperature," said registered nurse Elizabeth Clavin, "so if we had a fever, an elevated temperature at all, we would have gone home."
No one had to go home.
"We have extreme confidence in our ability to care for the patients," said Kamikawa.
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