The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) is awarding a $ 2 million dollar grant to researchers at the Cook County Health & Hospitals System and Rush University Medical Center to continue a successful program aimed at preventing healthcare-associated infections, antibiotic resistance, and other adverse events associated with healthcare. The Chicago Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Prevention Epicenter (CARPE), is one of only five CDC Prevention Epicenters in the country.
Rush and Cook County were chosen because the two institutions have a long standing collaboration and legacy of research innovation in antimicrobial resistance and infection prevention by internationally known infectious disease experts.
The CDC estimates that one out of 20 hospitalized patients will acquire an infection while receiving health care treatment for other conditions. Healthcare-associated infections cause significant death and illness among patients treated in U.S. healthcare institutions and add billions of dollars to healthcare costs. With the emergence of drug-resistant infections and new pathogens in health care settings, new strategies to detect and reduce health care-associated infections become even more critical.
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http://www.infectioncontroltoday.com/news/2011/03/cdc-cook-county-and-rush-collaborate-to-research-and-prevent-hais.aspx
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