If a jumbo jet crashed into the ocean every single day, it would roughly equal the number of Americans who die each day following superbug infections acquired at U.S. hospitals. Far from being some hyped-up scare story, that’s actually the conclusion of none other than the CDC, which has now publicly warned that 1 in 25 hospital patients gets infected and tens of thousands die each year.
“On any given day, 1 in 25 hospital patients has at least one healthcare-associated infection,” reports the CDC newsroom.(1)
“The CDC’s 2011 survey of 183 hospitals showed that an estimated 648,000 patients nationwide suffered 721,000 infections, and 75,000 of them died,” reports the Washington Post.(2)
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5 comments:
Sounds like the stuff you go home with from PRMC and Atlantic General !
Unless you have diplomatic immunity.
lol 1:58
seriously, you can check your hospitals before you use them. all the info is "out there"...
if it's not a real emergency, I go across the bridge; johns Hopkins, mercy and a couple of others...
Wonder what PRMC's record is. Was just there. Bathrooms not very cleaned and not kept up during patient stay. Staff coming in...some with gloves, some without. Someone wearing scrubs into the room that had clearly been worn somewhere else. Then, have you seen folks out and about in their scrubs at this and other hospitals? In French hospitals there are vending-like machines where staff pick up sterile scrubs as they enter the building. They are not allowed out and about in them.
Interesting 8:22. A few months ago I was reading in a British publication, a man's comparison of UK hospitals compared to the one's in France. He had been a patient at both. He was amazed at the focus on hygiene within the French hospitals in regards to not only the patient but the rooms. Rooms are scrubbed down on a daily basis including bed frames.
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