/_media/adv/web/images/2011/20110321_NDSSI_TB-378x82.gif

Subscriptions

Advertising

Resources

About Us

Contact Us

Create An Account Forgot Your Password?
Trouble logging in or creating an account? click here
Home This Month E-Weekly Newsletter Building a Facility Article Archive Second Opinions
Search:
Benchmarking
General Surgery
Accrediting/Quality
Anesthesia
Code/Bill/Reimburse
Building/Renovating
/_media/adv/web/images/2011/20111003_Ansell_LB-154x100.gif
/_media/adv/web/images/2011/20110124_ImageFirst_LB-154x100.gif
/_media/adv/web/images/2012/20120201_Provation_LB-154x100.gif
/_media/adv/web/images/2012/20120322_Soma_LB-154x100.gif
Outpatient Surgery E-Weekly

Las Vegas GI Doc Facing 28 Felony Counts in Hep C Case

Las Vegas physician Dipak Desai, MD, will face all 28 felony charges filed against him for allegedly exposing patients to hepatitis C, according to ...

New Device Helps Obese Patients Breathe Easier

Rice University engineering students have come up with a novel approach for lifting the excess abdomen weight that can hamper obese patients' breath...

How Effective are Your Infection Prevention Efforts?

Are your infection prevention efforts up to speed? It's generally advisable to find out before a site surveyor from a regulating or accrediting agen...

Archive >  Infection Control 2006

Understanding the Impact of SSIs

Just one infection can cost tens of thousands and change lives.

Helen Hwang, Contributing Editor

When Joe Corcoran, MD, performed a procedure, he was meticulous in taking precautions to prevent infections both in and out of the OR. He wouldn't even wear his surgical scrubs outside the sterile core. As chair of the OB/GYN department in a Florida hospital and father of two young children, he knew how important it was for his patients - women with new babies - to be able to go home and enjoy the first few days of their newborns' lives. He kept up to date on SSI literature and ensured prophylactic steps were taken in his ORs.

When he could still practice, that is.

Sign in to continue reading.
Email Address:
Password:
Categories: Infection Control
Keywords:
Raw statistics; Tracking SSI costs; Enough resources?; Left vulnerable; ASCs not immune; Stepping back; ASCs; CDC; Care Cost Containment Council; Center; Containment Council; Corcoran; Cost Containment Council; Council; Dr. Corcoran; Florida; Health Care Cost Containment Council; Helen Hwang There; Hospital; Hwang There; Jan Schultz; Janice Rey, MT; John Hospital; MRI; MT; Medicaid; Medical Center; Medicare; Ms. Schultz. That's; OB/GYN; ORs; ORs. When; Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council; Plus, SSI; Rey, MT; SSI; SSIs; SSIs. Raw; SSIs. Smoking; Schultz; Schultz. Tha... show all keywords
Raw statistics; Tracking SSI costs; Enough resources?; Left vulnerable; ASCs not immune; Stepping back; ASCs; CDC; Care Cost Containment Council; Center; Containment Council; Corcoran; Cost Containment Council; Council; Dr. Corcoran; Florida; Health Care Cost Containment Council; Helen Hwang There; Hospital; Hwang There; Jan Schultz; Janice Rey, MT; John Hospital; MRI; MT; Medicaid; Medical Center; Medicare; Ms. Schultz. That's; OB/GYN; ORs; ORs. When; Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council; Plus, SSI; Rey, MT; SSI; SSIs; SSIs. Raw; SSIs. Smoking; Schultz; Schultz. That's; Smoking; St. John Hospital; Stepping; Story Five; Surgeon's Story Five; Tracking; Two-and-a-half; abscess; absorb; accounting; accumulation; accurate; acute; addition; additional; adequate; admitted; advertising; affect; affected; affects; air; alarming; amount; annually; apparent; appointment; area; assistant; attributed; average; babies; back; bed; billion; blood; bottom; bottom-line; brain; breach; break; burden; call; care; career; careful; caring; catheters; caused; central; chair; chance; change; checkups; clear; clinic; clinical; collection; combine; common; companies; compensated; complication; confidence; confident; consequences; consulting; contact; control; cost; costs; coughed; country; cover; current; daily; data; date; day; days; death; decide; deep; deeply; defending; defined; delay; demands; department; devastating; develop; developed; diabetic; diagnosed; dietary; digging; direct; discomfort; doctor; doctors; drains; easy; educated; effect; emergency; end; ended; ending; endures; enjoy; ensured; entire; equipment; essentially; estimated; estimates; expected; experiences; experiencing; extended; extends; facility; factors; father; feel; felt; financial; financially; forking; form; found; fresh; funds; hastened; he'll; healing; health; healthcare; healthcare-acquired; herniated; higher; history; holds; home; hoping; hospital; hospitals; hotline; hours; household; housekeeping; huge; hurt; immediately; impact; important; incision; incisional; income; incur; indirect; infection; infections; inflexibility; initial; initially; institution; insurance; issue; kinds; knew; lawsuit; lawyer; left; legs; length; life; lifetime; lingers; literature; long; loss; lot; lower; maintain; major; make; making; malpractice; means; medical; member; meningitis; method; meticulous; million; minimize; months; morning; nervous; nosocomial; numbers; nurses; nursing; obese; obvious; occur; one-quarter; opportunity; order; outlines; paid; pain; painful; painstakingly; path; patient; patients; pay; payer; percent; performed; physical; physicians; picture; place; plenty; plummeted; pocket; point; possibility; post-op; potential; potentially; practitioner; precautions; president; prevent; probability; procedure; professor; profits; prolongs; promising; prophylactic; protocol; provide; provider; pus; radiology; rate; readmitted; realization; receive; recent; recoup; reimbursements; related; released; reminder; reminds; report; require; result; revenue-generating; rise; risk; road; room; routinely; run; scheduled; scrubs; scrutinize; sense; services; settlement; severe; severity; shorter; shoulder; showed; simply; site; skilled; skin's; slow; small; smallest; sneezed; soft-tissue; sort; spread; staff; states; stay; steps; sterile; story; study; subtle; sue; suffer; suffering; suits; superficial; supply; surgeon; surgeons; surgeries; surgery; surgical; surveillance; suspicious; swollen; symptoms; system; taking; targeted; team; teams; technique; theorizes; third-party; thought; time; times; tiniest; track; tracking; tract; trained; translate; treatment; tremendous; trend; trickles; turned; turning; type; undergoes; underneath; understand; underwent; uninsured; units; unplanned; urinary; utility; utilization; visit; visited; visits; warns; wear; weekly; weeks; women; word; work; world; wound; year; young

© Copyright Herrin Publishing Partners LP. REPRODUCTION OF THIS COPYRIGHTED CONTENT IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED. We encourage LINKING to this content; view our linking policy here.

PRODUCT & SERVICE RESOURCES
Did You See This?
A showcase of products and services geared to make your facility better.

Architects' Showcase
Is a beautiful, efficient new facility in your future?
/_media/adv/web/images/2012/20120509_ORX_AR-300x250.gif
Other Articles That May Interest You
Wouldn't It Be Nice if Drugs Came in User-Friendly Vials?
Pharmacy consultant argues that vials that match the dosage would enable compliance and avoid waste.
Enlist Your Patients in the Fight Against Healthcare-Associated Infections
Download free, customizable educational materials from APIC.
Surgeon Blames Hospital for Alleged Dirty Instruments
Orthopod claims money earmarked for new construction jeopardized infection control practices.