miércoles, 5 de febrero de 2014

New Business Pulse Connects Corporate Leaders to CDC’s Safe Healthcare Initiatives

New Business Pulse Connects Corporate Leaders to CDC’s Safe Healthcare Initiatives



New Business Pulse Connects Corporate Leaders to CDC’s Safe Healthcare Initiatives



  
Business Pulse connects CDC and business to address public health issues

Every day, 1 in 20 hospitalized patients has an infection caused by medical care. Health care-associated infections are costly to businesses and are potentially lethal to employees. In fact, health care-associated infections create an economic burden of as much as $45 billion for citizens and businesses each year, even though 70 percent of some infections are preventable. Today, the CDC Foundation published its latest Business Pulse: How CDC Protects the Health of Your Business. This issue highlights specific safe health care challenges faced by businesses, and aconversation between Healthcare Corporation of America’s Chief Medical Director Dr. Jonathan Perlin and CDC expert Dr. Michael Bell. 




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