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Pressing Fast Forward on Patient Safety
Authors: Mary Hayden MD and William Trick MD, Joint Principal Investigators, Chicago Prevention and Intervention Epicenter at Rush University Medical Center and Cook County Health and Hospitals System For more than 20 years, our colleagues in Chicago and we have been working to combat antibiotic resistance in healthcare settings. These efforts have yielded several wins; Read More >
Posted on by 2 CommentsPreventing Legionnaires’ Disease in Healthcare Facilities Part 2: How Our Legionella Experiences Shaped our Prevention Approaches
Guest Author: John Letson, Vice President Plant Operations, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) has a 470 inpatient bed hospital, outpatient clinics, and research facility headquartered on the upper east side of Manhattan, with additional outpatient treatment centers in Brooklyn; Long Island; Westchester County, New York; and New Jersey. The Read More >
Posted on by 4 CommentsPreventing Legionnaires’ Disease in Healthcare Facilities Part 1: This 5-Part Program Helped Us Maintain the Safest Environment for Our At-Risk Patients
Guest Author: John Letson, Vice President Plant Operations, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Since being discovered, Legionnaires’ disease continues to make vulnerable populations sick with severe pneumonia. This month’s Vital Signs report focuses on the continued rise of Legionnaires’ disease in the U.S., deficiencies in environmental control that have led to outbreaks, and how these Read More >
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