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Bleach-Based Cleaning Program Helped Reduce VRE Colonization and Disease

To reduce rates of VRE colonization/disease, Investigators from Austin Health in Melbourne, Australia and the University of Melbourne introduced a multimodal hospital-wide bleach-based cleaning program (BBCP) that included a new product (sodium hypochlorite 1000ppm ...More
July 14, 2011
Posted in News, Environmental Hygiene
Community Hospital Network Leverages Best Practices to Fight Spread of Clostridium difficile

When it comes to fighting infection, there is power in numbers, and the Duke Infection Control Outreach Network (DICON), a collaboration between Duke University Medical Center (DUMC) and 39 community hospitals spanning from Northern Virginia to Atlanta, is working to prove ...More
November 29, 2010
Posted in News, Disinfection & Sterilization, Environmental Hygiene
Daily Bleach Cleaning Reduces VRE Bacteremia Rates

An Australian healthcare facility that implemented aggressive environmental hygiene interventions such as institution-wide wash-downs with bleach, coupled with infection prevention and control practices, reports that it has eradicated bloodstream infections associated with ...More
September 15, 2010
Posted in News, Disinfection & Sterilization, Environmental Hygiene
Clorox, Caltech Together Help Combat HAIs

The Clorox Company announced in January 2010 it acquired Midland, Mich.- based Caltech Industries, a national leader in healthcare disinfecting products, including its core brand, DISPATCH® Hospital Cleaner Disinfectant with Bleach. Through the acquisition, the newly formed ...More
July 12, 2010
Posted in News
Intervention Drops Hospital Infection Rate by One-Third

Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) is the one of the leading pathogens causing hospital-acquired infection in the United States. It may cause diarrhea, colitis, sepsis and lead to prolonged hospitalization and death. Mayo Clinic researchers say they've found a way to ...More
March 21, 2010
Posted in News, Disinfection & Sterilization, Environmental Hygiene
40 Percent of Surface Disinfectants Ineffective in Eliminating Viruses that Cause Gastroenteritis

Some 40 percent of commercial disinfectants used to clean surfaces are believed to be ineffective in eliminating noroviruses, a group of viruses responsible for more than half of all foodborne gastroenteritis outbreaks. According to a recent study published by ...More
March 17, 2010
Posted in News, Disinfection & Sterilization, Environmental Hygiene
HHS Awards $17 Million in New Initiative to Fight HAIs

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has announced the award of $17 million to fund projects to fight costly and dangerous healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). "When patients go to the hospital, they expect to get better, not worse," Sebelius said. "Eliminating infections is ...More
October 26, 2009
Posted in News
Hospital Superbugs on the Rise Despite Prevention Efforts, Study Shows

Although infection control has been substantially ramped up in Canadian hospitals since the SARS crisis of 2003, resistant bacterial infections post-SARS are multiplying even faster, a new Queen's University study shows.Led by Queen's University epidemiologist Dr. Dick ...More
November 7, 2008
Posted in News
MRSA Bloodstream Infections Continue to Fall in the UK

The Health Protection Agency in the United Kingdom has released its latest quarterly figures on methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bloodstream infections and Clostridium difficile infections in the UK. These relate to the January to March 2008 period, the ...More
July 22, 2008
Posted in News