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Bacteria Bite Back After Hospital Installs Innovative Faucets
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| May 08, 2011
| Garth Hogan
Posted on 05/08/2011 11:31:41 PM PDT by LucyT
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To: grey_whiskers
Now *there's* an idea more hospitals should try. Know anyone in the plumbing / sanitation business? Or anyone on a hospital chain's risk management staff? LOL I'm a retired medical facility Maintenance Mechanic. I was the plumber, Electrician, HVAC, Boiler Operator, you name it. No joke though things like Staph were a concern.
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05/09/2011 9:34:24 AM PDT
by
cva66snipe
(Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?)
To: grey_whiskers
Now *there's* an idea more hospitals should try. Know anyone in the plumbing / sanitation business? Or anyone on a hospital chain's risk management staff? LOL I'm a retired medical facility Maintenance Mechanic. I was the plumber, Electrician, HVAC, Boiler Operator, you name it. No joke though things like Staph were a concern.
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posted on
05/09/2011 9:34:54 AM PDT
by
cva66snipe
(Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?)
To: trebb
They worked great when I was a machinist back in the '70s - none of us got other folks' grease on our hands from turning faucets. Now the cleanser dispenser levers were a different story... Foot activated valves used to be quite common even on public water coolers. Yea I remember those hand cleaner dispenser also.
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posted on
05/09/2011 9:38:17 AM PDT
by
cva66snipe
(Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?)
To: LucyT; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
Apparently no one was cleaning, either. :’) Thanks LucyT.
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posted on
05/09/2011 3:02:19 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
To: cva66snipe
Write up a proposal and use Hopkins as an example, present it to the Risk Management / Legal teams at hospitals.
I'll bet you land more business than you can handle.
Cheers!
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posted on
05/09/2011 4:53:50 PM PDT
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: grey_whiskers
Foot control sinks used to be pretty common and prevented water waste as well as offering great sanitation from hand contamination. I think a lot of it was born of necessity during the Polio epidemic. When sinks and water fountains went from floor standing to wall mounted the foot control valves went with it as the epidemic had passed. Now they're dealing with containing the spread of some real bad super bugs in medical facilities.
My time has past for doing any more maintenance work. I'm medically retired now 16 years.
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posted on
05/09/2011 5:32:55 PM PDT
by
cva66snipe
(Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?)
To: decimon; Mother Abigail; EBH; vetvetdoug; Smokin' Joe; Global2010; Battle Axe; null and void; ...
Like Sister Ann Michael called me in the 8th grade, “you’re late, you’re lazy”!
It’s better late than never, micro ping!
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posted on
05/09/2011 11:25:35 PM PDT
by
neverdem
(Xin loi minh oi)
To: LucyT
I wonder if the effect of electric eye control on housekeeping/cleaning of the faucet-sink area was investigated. The same problems that users have with getting adequate flow and correct temperatures just has to have an effect on the custodial cleanup.
To: neverdem
“But Sister, cleanliness is next to Godliness.” (...more time with my nose in the corner...)
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posted on
05/10/2011 1:03:26 AM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: Carley
The report was not complete but it would seem that their switch to so called ‘green’ cleaning methods had something to do with this high number of deaths. The local newsrag did no followup after reporting the information.
What and link green to deaths????
(No followup on the root cause of the Challenger disaster being a switch from Freon to a "green" cleaner before the foam coating on external fuel tank)...
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posted on
05/10/2011 6:13:58 AM PDT
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null and void
(We are now in day 839 of our national holiday from reality. - OBL Dead? The TSA can go away!)
To: cva66snipe
“Foot controlled valves would have made more sense than any thing.”
Officer, I wasn’t toe tapping, I was running the sink!
To: trebb
There have been foot controlled water faucets used in healthcare. I’ve used them in the hospital and clinic I’ve worked in.
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