National Patient Safety Awareness Week

Yes it is National Patient Safety Awareness Week March 3-9, 2013!

We are asking you to observe if your physician or nurse practice the 4 Principles of Hand Awareness when you see them in the office or hospital. This may put you at a much higher risk for Healthcare associated infections(HAIs) if they do not.

Health care-associated infections (HAIs) are infections that people acquire while they are receiving treatment for medical or surgical conditions in a health care setting. HAIs can be acquired anywhere health care is delivered. Hospital-acquired HAIs are among the leading causes of death in the United States. At any given time, about one in every 20 hospitalized patients has an HAI, while over one million HAIs occur across health care every year. Hospital-acquired HAIs alone are responsible for $28 billion to $33 billion in potentially preventable health care expenditures annually. Scientific evidence has shown that certain types of HAIs can be drastically reduced to save lives and avoid excess costs (HHS/OASH).

Please lend us your hand to continue to “spread the word not the germs”!

Will Sawyer, MD

 

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