Restaurtants Higher Priority Than Hospitals

[From article]
"Tragically, 100,000 people die each year from infections contracted in health-care facilities, according to the CDC; millions manage to survive but more suffer for weeks or months, sometimes undergoing amputations or other life-changing disabilities.
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Hospital infections are caused largely by unclean hands and poorly cleaned equipment. More than half the surfaces in operating rooms that are supposed to be disinfected are overlooked,
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at most hospitals hand hygiene is poorly enforced. Doctors fail to clean their hands before touching a patient half the time, according to a 2009 joint commission analysis. Even when doctors and nurses do clean their hands, their hands can become contaminated again seconds later, when they pull open the privacy curtain to see the next patient or put their hands on the patient's bedrail."

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Grading eateries -- but not hospitals
Betsy McCaughey
New York Post
Last Updated: 1:29 AM, July 28, 2010
Posted: 12:42 AM, July 28, 2010