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One superbug infection costs hospital $60,000: Study
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A single patient infected with the increasingly common "superbug" known as MRSA can cost a hospital $60,000, U.S. researchers reported. Their
study of seven hospitals and health facilities shows that taking action, even expensive action, to fight infections can save money, the researchers at Duke University in North Carolina said. More
Nurse-patient
relationships can reduce infections
Nursing Times
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Nurses are being urged to use the close relationships they form with patients to help make them feel more at ease about challenging other staff about hand hygiene.
The advice is being issued in light of evidence suggesting that a national campaign has made little difference to the
number of patients asking staff to clean their hands.
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ASHES announces online education courses for January
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Start the New Year off on the
right foot and register for one of the ASHES online education courses starting in January. The Supervisory Course and Director Course will begin Monday, January 11. Starting January 25, we will start the CHESP Study Group. Click here to view the complete listing of online education courses.
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H1N1
reveals gaps in nation's emergency health preparedness efforts
Infection Control Today
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The seventh annual "Ready or Not? Protecting the Public's Health from Diseases, Disasters and Bioterrorism report," released today by the Trust for America's Health (TFAH) and the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation (RWJF), found that the H1N1 flu outbreak has exposed serious underlying gaps in the nation's ability to respond to public health emergencies and that the economic crisis is straining an already fragile public health system.
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Hospitals take steps to prevent patient falls
WCVB Boston
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There's a good chance an older adult in your life has fallen and gotten hurt. One in three older Americans fall every year.
And out of all serious reportable injuries in Massachusetts hospitals last year, 70 percent were falls. Boston's NewsCenter 5's Liz Brunner explained what's being done to prevent injuries.
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Service Management Systems’ EVS
programs are geared toward two things: keeping your hospital pristine and making sure your patients are pleased with our work. Our goal is not to maintain patient satisfaction scores, but to raise them for every facility. To learn how we increase patient satisfaction, click here. more
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Applied Ergonomics
Conference
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The Applied Ergonomics Conference will offer attendees many opportunities to exchange ideas with other ergonomics practitioners and discover new ways in which you can use ergonomics to improve, impact and influence the bottom line. This is the only conference focused on how ergonomics works in the real world to improve health, human factors,
processes and safety in a variety of environments. You will be able to select from more than 60 high-quality educational sessions; take part in dynamic roundtable sessions; explore an exhibit hall filled with solutions-oriented vendors; listen to and learn from industry-leading keynote speakers; participate in facility tours to see applied ergonomics in action. The conference will take place on March 22-25, 2010 at the J.W. Marriott San Antonio.
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Missouri hospitals lead the way on smoking bans
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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Most hospitals in the country will have smoking bans on their campuses by next year, but St. Louis hospitals already breathe easy.
National regulations for hospitals have banned smoking inside medical
buildings since 1992. About five years ago, hospitals started adopting smoke-free policies for their entire campuses, including parking lots, private vehicles and outdoor common areas.
Missouri, which has one of the nation's highest smoking rates at 24 percent, was at the forefront of making hospitals entirely smoke-free.
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MRSA leads to worse
outcomes, staggering expenses for surgical patients
Infection Control Today
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Post-surgical infections significantly increase the chance of hospital readmission and death and cost as much as $60,000 per patient, according to Duke University Medical Center researchers who
conducted the largest study of its kind to date.
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