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News & EventsDay Kimball Hospital is Joining Connecticut Hospital Association In Multiple Drug-Resistant Organisms InitiativePUTNAM, CT – In conjunction with the Connecticut Hospital Association (CHA), Day Kimball Hospital is embarking on a multi-tiered effort to address prevention and control of multiple drug-resistant organisms (MDROs) in healthcare facilities and at Day Kimball Hospital. MDROs such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), have a potentially significant impact on hospital patients and the community at large. While hospitals have been battling antibiotic-resistant infections for more than fifty years, a seeming increase in the incidence of MRSA and other infections has been of alarm to many. Prevention and control of these organisms has thus taken on increasing importance for hospitals. Today, February 1, several Day Kimball Hospital staff members are attending a symposium sponsored by the CHA, where nationally recognized infection prevention experts are addressing this issue. Topics include understanding the scope of the problem, effective hospital initiatives, methods of infection prevention and reduction, and putting the risk in perspective for our community. Concurrent with the symposium, Day Kimball Hospital will be joining CHA and Qualidigm on launching an ongoing MDRO Collaborative. This collaborative brings together a working group of 30 hospitals, including Day Kimball Hospital, to address quality improvements in infection prevention. Members of the collaborative agree to share all relevant information on infection prevention in their facilities as a means of achieving quality improvement across the board. Through a website, listserv, regular conference calls and coaching, collaborative participants will rapidly collect information and implement the latest patient safety improvements, with the intended result of decreasing infection rates. Finally, Day Kimball Hospital strongly endorses the “Connecticut Hospital Infection Prevention Pledge,” released yesterday by the CHA. This includes our pledge to continue to use and improve strategies such as, hand hygiene, decontamination of the hospital environment and equipment, precautions for patients with MDROs, use of proven care processes and careful antibiotic prescription. Dr. Douglas Waite, vice president of Medical Affairs and director of Infectious Disease at Day Kimball said, “Day Kimball Hospital is committed to continuing and enhancing our efforts to control and reduce the spread of MRSA and other such drug-resistant pathogens. We have an excellent staff who are committed to using proven methods to achieve this. Our collaboration with the CHA will further help us in these endeavors.” Day Kimball Hospital is a non-profit, 103-bed community hospital in Putnam. Day Kimball has been in operation since 1894, and provides for the health care needs of Northeastern Connecticut, and nearby Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Day Kimball is served by more than 1,000 employees and more than 125 physicians and medical specialists. In coordination with its affiliated health centers in Danielson, Dayville, Plainfield and Thompson, Day Kimball offers acute and general medical/surgical care, a 24-hour Emergency and Prompt Care Department, obstetrics, hematology and oncology, gynecology, pediatrics, cardiopulmonary and psychiatric programs. |
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