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Despite knowing that vaccination is a patient-safety imperative, many healthcare professionals are not immunized against influenza. Healthcare institutions are trying to change that by mandating vaccination for its workers, and one of the biggest success stories has been unfolding for the last five years at Virginia Mason Medical Center (VMMC), a tertiary-care, multi-specialty medical center in Seattle with 5,000 employees.

Sodium hypochlorite, or common bleach, is one of the most widely available disinfectants on the market today, and is seeing a resurgence in popularity within healthcare settings, with the advent of harder-to-kill pathogens such as C. difficile spores and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).