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“According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), nearly two million patients develop infections while being treated in the hospital every year and almost 100,000 of them die from the infection.” - Centers for Disease Control
Harsh Soap blamed for allergies
They called "Hygiene Hypothesis" we called "Overdose". Antiseptics contain drug or chemical agents that help to reduce or eliminate microorganisms; however, the excessive use of it can cause unwanted effects, especially when it is applied to the skin (dosage principle). Foam Safe is gentle no matter whcih solution is used. Our foam quality makes the difference.
"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 1 of every 10-20 patients hospitalized in the United States develops a healthcare-associated infection (HAI)." - October 2008, A Compendium of Strategies to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections in Acute Care Hospitals.
Recently, Medicare has released important news about infection control.
Medicare, being the largest provider of health insurance in the United States is leading the push to stop paying for hospital acquired conditions, primarily, infections caused by improper cleaning.
In addition to proposing expansion of the HAC list, CMS is proposing 43 new measures for the hospital quality measure reporting program...
"...reasonably preventable through application of evidence-based guidelines."
Beginning October 1, 2008, Medicare will no longer pay at a higher weighted MS-DRG for these conditions or any of the additional nine categories conditions we are proposing to add in this year’s rule.
CMS is proposing to add an additional nine categories of conditions that when acquired in the hospital will no longer lead to higher Medicare payment. CMS proposing to select: surgical site infections for certain elective procedures...
- Surgical Site Infections
- Surgical Site Infections Following Elective Procedures
- Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection (UTI)
- Vascular Catheter-Associated Infection
“Medicare Will Not Pay for Hospital Mistakes and Infections, New Rule” – Medicalnewstoday.com August 20th, 2007
