Posted on 11/03/2009 6:39:40 PM PST by TornadoAlley3
CLARKSVILLE, Md. (AP) - Be sure to wash up, Maryland doctors and nurses. You're being watched.
State officials said Tuesday they're creating teams of staff members at hospitals around the state to secretly monitor their colleagues' hand-washing habits as part of a first-of-its-kind program. The monitors will contribute to asystemwide report on hand-washing, using $100,000 in federal stimulus money.
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What a foolish waste of money!
If this was a good idea, the hospital would be doing it already. Instead, they do it because stimulus funds are offered.
NO MORE STIMULUS PLANS!
People who wash their hands because of money .... I hope they are not operating on people......YIKES.
Big Brutha is watching you.
War is Peace
Ignorance is Strength
Freedom is Slavery
Seventy-eleventy-quadrillion-million,bazillion jobs created or saved with stimulus money.... 115% employment rate.... we have always been at war with Eurasia....
I sure hope they use some of that stimulus money to increase our choclate ration; that would be double plus good.
Unfortunately, I already know what is in the shovel . . . . . . . it comes from cattle like horses and cows!!!
Haven’t you read Far Side? They are going to put the big buzzer over the bathroom door in the doctor’s lounge that says “Didn’t wash hands”.
“...using $100,000 in federal stimulus money.”
GOSH! They make it sound as though the stimulus money belongs to the Fed!
ROCHESTER, N.Y. – December 14, 2005 — Dirty, or unwashed, hands are a major source of infections.
This is true even in hospitals where, presumably, much more care is taken to scrub and disinfect hands than almost anywhere else.
The “WHO Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care (advanced draft),” states that:
“Failure to comply with hand hygiene is considered the leading cause of healthcare-associated infections.”
“Each year, at least two million patients in the USA acquire one or more healthcare-associated infections during their stay in hospital.”
“Every day 247 people die in the USA as a result of a health-associated infection.”
The number of infections passed by unwashed hands is probably much higher outside the hospital setting; infectious diseases, many caused by unclean hands, are the leading causes of death and disease worldwide and the third leading cause of death in the United States.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says that “hand washing is the single most important means of preventing the spread of infection.”
“To reduce the number of contagious infections spread by hand from person to person, experts recommend washing hands with soap and water for 20 seconds after using the bathroom, after touching a dog or cat, coughing or sneezing, changing diapers, handling money or before handling food or eating.”
http://www.harrisinteractive.com/NEWS/allnewsbydate.asp?NewsID=1000
Well, one hand watches the other...
Hey, when are they going to bring this program to my state? This is the perfect job for me! My kids and grandkids say I nag them about this kind of stuff all the time. Who knew it could turn out to be a lucrative career? ;-)
They do,
Maryland "Freak State" PING!
I'd rather just sniff and lick my fingers after handling money to see if I can get high off the drug residue.
“State officials said Tuesday they’re creating teams of staff members at hospitals around the state to secretly monitor their colleagues’ hand-washing habits as part of a first-of-its-kind program. The monitors will contribute to asystemwide report on hand-washing, using $100,000 in federal stimulus money.”
Are they implying they’re creating “snitches”? “...their colleagues...”?
And this in the Medical Center of the Universe. Hah.
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