Hospital Borne Infections

  

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Hospital acquired infections are a growing problem in today’s healthcare scene. The problem is that these infections continue to spread at rapid rates because hospital patients have weakening immune systems and open wounds.

This rise in infection rates is disappointing because as hospitals become more aware, they should have been able to reduce these easily preventable infections, yet they are failing. The only thing that is needed is for doctors, nurses and other hospital employees to follow regulations and well-known prevention procedures. However, too many of these workers, continuously refuse to follow these simple steps and risk the lives of patients instead. “Among the most egregious of these practices are when patients with contagious infections are placed in rooms with uninfected patients, rooms are not adequately cleaned between patient stays and medical professionals fail to wash their hands”[1]. All of these practices can be changed, yet progress has been slow.

Inadequate medical treatment should never be acceptable. So you’re left with this knowledge:

Fact: Hospital-acquired infections cost $30 billion annually and lead to the deaths of an estimated 100,000 people a year, making them among the nation’s leading causes of death[2].

Fact: No health agency currently tracks these cases.

Fact: This all can be prevented.

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