In 2012, South Seminole Hospital in Orlando, Fla., began a broad-based initiative to reduce health care-associated infections, according to an article on the Health Facilities Management website.
All links in the infection prevention chain were examined. and the effort produced impressive results.
Actions implemented by the clinical and quality staff, environmental services personnel, infection preventionists and others led to the improvements.
The measures included stepped-up efforts to monitor hand-hygiene compliance and pulsed xenon ultraviolet light (UV) disinfection was added as a supplemental step to terminal cleaning in the intensive care unit, operating rooms and all contact isolation precaution rooms.
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