Syncia Sabain, EdD, MPH, MS, MBA, MA, Director of Quality Assurance and Infection, Unique Rehabilitation & Health Center discusses when bacteria is present in a urine culture of someone that has no symptoms of an urinary tract infection which is common condition found in the elderly in long term care facilities. Antibiotics do not benefit these residents and they are at risk for developing antibiotic resistance making them more difficult to treat in the future.
Significant progress has been made in preventing some healthcare-associated infection types, there is much more work to be done. On any given day, about one in 31 hospital patients has at least one healthcare-associated infection.
DC Health collaborates with the healthcare community in the city through the DC Healthcare Associated Infections (HAI) committee that makes recommendations to DC Government and its external healthcare stakeholders to help all types of healthcare facilities to provide the best possible quality of care in the District by ultimately eliminating HAIs.
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