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A Simple Way To Help Keep Healthcare Costs Down

Published in AIDS Weekly, April 19th, 2010

According to RID (Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths) over thirty billion dollars is spent each year in the US on hospital-acquired infections. (Infections caught while hospitalized). These very preventable infections cost an additional $15,000.00 on average per patient infected and kill more people in this country than AIDS, breast cancer and car accidents combined.

The rapidly rising cost of healthcare is a subject that has everyone talking - from the halls of Congress to the grocery line in the supermarket. Given the enormity of the expense involved, it is sometimes difficult to imagine that a small, inexpensive change can make any difference. However many...

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