Tennessee hospital reduces MRSA in long-term care patients
Briefings on Infection Control, February 1, 2009
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At Blount Memorial Hospital in Maryville, TN, a team effort reduced MRSA rates among patients admitted from nursing homes. That effort resulted in patients being discharged an average of 2.2 days faster.
“Blount Memorial is a terrific example of an institution that examined their MRSA risk and then created an individualized set of strategies to address that risk,” says Janet E. Frain, RN, CIC, CPHQ, CPHRM, APIC’s 2008 president and director of Integrated Services at Sutter Medical Center in Sacramento, CA.
The intervention began in 2002 when staff members noted that an increasingly large number of long-term care residents being treated at the hospital were positive for MRSA.
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