Infection Prevention and Control

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Asif Ali

3. Infections
• 2 million infections start in facilities each year
• 70,000 people die each year as a result
• Each of these infections costs $30,000
• Spends over $45 billion yearly on facility acquired infections
• Leading cause of death in nursing home is infection
• Infections lower quality of life
• Nurse aides can decrease occurrence of infection in facilities
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