Unsung heroes work hard to cut hospital-acquired infections

By doris | Published: July 10, 2009

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Still, patients became sick with bacterial infections after checking in. Some died.

“I never saw anything change. I saw things getting worse,” Torress-Cook said.

Torress-Cook eventually joined Pacific Hospital of Long Beach, in California, where as director of epidemiology and patient safety, he changed the rules and slashed the number of patients who become infected.

Torress-Cook is part of a growing movement in medicine that no longer accepts hospital-acquired infections as inevitable complications. Every year, such infections sicken 1.7 million and kill 99,000 people in the United States.

At Pacific Hospital, Torress-Cook doesn’t go after all bacteria, just the dangerous ones.

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