Comments on: Why Aren't Hospitals Cleaner?

Commentary: Not All Deadly Infections Come From Dirty Hands. Check The Lab Coats

[ioweign]

Are they saying, if the doctors don't get the hospital will!

[cantshutup]

i'm gonna call the hospitals here in town and ask them about their cleanliness procedures...then i'm gonna tell them i'm going to secretly video tape what i see in the hospital and contact the local news...muahahahaha!

[michellem99-2009]

I hate hospitals and know their nasty. You do learn something. I hate using the rest rooms in public as well. People are dirty and they leave it the same as them. I tell you the main reason I don't if I can help it,I can't see whats on the seat.
I asked my friend,he said Canada is cleaner than US of A. I use a liquid soap to wash my hands as it is easier for me.
Clean them up Amerca. I think as patents We must demand it. Rude noway.

[erasmus6]

paulam01

You're right. People should not be using these anti-bacterial soaps, dishsoaps and cleaners on a daily basis in their homes. It is only making things worse.

And when you do use them, you better *** well make sure you use them right and make sure you clean your hands or whatever, thoroughly!

[paulam01-2009]

This is really scary. Because of my job, I had to attend a Health Department food safety class. With everything I've learned, I don't even want to cook in my own kitchen! And now dirty hospitals?
Maybe all of the anti-microbial soaps and anti-bacterial cleaners that we're using have something to do with this. Every time someone doesn't wash their hands properly, or something isn't disinfected thoroughly with these anti-bacterial solutions, some of these bacteria become more resistant to these soaps.
The Health Department is blaming the overprescribing of antibiotics as a major source of the problem...and I'm sure it is....but I personally think that the anti-bacterial & antimicrobial cleaners are also an issue also.

[tucano2]

Hospital filth is the least of it. Post-surgery customers typically leave the surgery venue for another, such as a convalescent home, where the inkling of MRSA they were exposed to is swamped by layer upon layer of more filth and disease. Not the least of it is that so many such venueshire almost 100 percent of their staff off the street for cash under the table whether or not they speak a word of English.

[erasmus6]

Geez, I learn more and more on this website.
I cannot actually believe what I am reading.
THIS IS A HOSPITAL AND THEY AREN'T BEING INSPECTED FOR CLEANLINESS?

Are your Hospitals PRIVATELY owned? Because when a hospital is privately owned you can expect the cleanliness to go downhill.

In all hospitals it is very hard to try and keep control of bacteria and infections, that is why you need to be cleaning constantly. In Canadian hospitals everything is cleaned. They are constantly washing the floors etc. Rooms are cleaned from top to bottom. Of course there are still infections but I bet not as bad as your hospitals. Also every few feet now they have bottles of sanitizing liquid stuck on walls and posts for people to be cleaning their hands. When you come into the hospital you are supposed to use them and also when you leave, so you are not bringing germs in or taking them out.

[michellem99-2009]

Laziness. You ask did hash your hands to them that treat you. They ought do better it is our health.No that is not rude to ask. They can wash their clothes. Too busy no way.

[sjc_1]

Many times it appears that it is a matter of protocol and policy. Like the wrong medications getting to patients. Under the Clinton administration they quoted that something like 90,000 patients die in hospitals do to careless mistakes.

Republicans would like to cap malpractice awards at $250,000, no matter what happens. Then the screw ups would merely be a cost of doing business, just overhead, never mind the patient that was killed or damaged for life.

In a competitive industry, efficiency and quality go hand in hand. In the hospital business, costs are bloated and there really is no competition. That being the case, protocols and policy must be in place to insure patient safety.

Hospitals are very similar in their day to day operations. After all this time and case history, if you had continuous improvement systems in place their quality would be excellent by now. It is not, because there is really no incentive for it. If they cap malpractice awards, there will be even less incentive to make improvements.

[crowepps]

Considering that the cleaning staff are among the lowest paid persons at the hospital, even doubling cleaning hours would have a fairly low effect on the bottom line and would probably be paid for immediately by the resulting drop in payment of huge attorney's fees to defend against lawsuits.