Archive for 'hospital services' Category
St. Michael’s ‘Will Not Close’ Pledge
16 November 2006From THE CORNISHMAN ,16 November 2006
The Secretary of State for Health has made a surprise pledge that St Michael’s Hospital in Hayle will not close.Patricia Hewitt also revealed that an extra £17 million of NHS funding is to go to the debt-ridden Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust.
The announcement was made when she visited the Royal Cornwall [...]
Interesting information on MRSA
15 November 2006This makes St. Michael’s Hospital’s excellent record with avoiding MRSA all the more impressive.
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To Catch a Deadly Germ By BETSY McCAUGHEY, New York Times, Published: November 14, 2006
WHAT kills more than five times as many Americans as AIDS? Hospital infections, which account for an estimated 100,000 deaths every year. Yet the Centers for Disease Control [...]