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Improve Your Local Hospitals - Reduce Bloodstream Infections

An innovative "checklist" to reduce central line bloodstream infections in intensive care units has had incredible success in hospitals where it's been adopted. Make sure your area hospitals use it too -- it doesn't take a law, just some public pressure!

Ask your state lawmakers to get local hospitals on board with this lifesaving campaign. More than 30,000 Americans die each year from central line associated blood stream infections (CLABSI) -- and federal researchers just reported an 8 percent increase in these infections over the year before.

We can prevent these unnecessary deaths by getting hospital workers to follow a simple checklist that has been proven to reduce infections by two-thirds. Send a letter now to your state legislators so they know residents are asking for this common-sense prevention program.

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Subject: How local hospitals can save lives, money

Dear [Decision Maker],

With some encouragement from you, our local hospitals can save lives and money by following a simple five-step checklist to prevent deadly bloodstream infections in patients. It doesn't take a new law, but it will take some awareness and pressure from leaders like you to encourage hospitals in our district to participate. I ask you to join me in getting area hospitals to implement this life-saving checklist.

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Each year more than 30,000 Americans die from bloodstream infections they get from catheters while in the hospital. And just this week, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality reported an 8 percent increase in these infections over the year before. These types of infections add an average $42,000 to the hospital bills of each ICU patient.

But a leading Johns Hopkins doctor developed a simple, low-cost checklist that when used, cuts that deadly infection rate by two-thirds. Dr. Peter Pronovost, a critical care specialist and patient-safety researcher at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, developed a five-step checklist to prevent them.

When it was implemented in Michigan, central-line bloodstream infections dropped by 66 percent, and was estimated to save more than 1,500 lives and $200 million in the first 18 months.

The five steps to inserting these "lines" or catheters are easy: wash hands; disinfect the patient's skin; use barrier precautions -- like masks, gowns and gloves; avoid placing the catheter in the groin area; and remove unnecessary catheters. One more important step has to be included: allow nurses to call attention to doctors who fail to follow the checklist.

More hospitals are gradually adopting this proven checklist, but we need leaders like you to get all of our area hospitals to join up. Dr. Pronovost's national program gives hospitals technical support on implementing the checklist.

To see which hospitals in your district are participating, go to his program's website at http://www.safercare.net/OTCSBSI/Participation.html

This checklist is effective, it saves lives and money, and it doesn't cost the state anything. Would you please use your influence by urging hospitals in your district to participate in this lifesaving program?
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When it was implemented in Michigan, central-line bloodstream infections dropped by 66 percent, and was estimated to save more than 1,500 lives and $200 million in the first 18 months. The five steps to inserting these "lines" or catheters are easy: wash hands; disinfect the patient's skin; use barrier precautions -- like masks, gowns and gloves; avoid placing the catheter in the groin area; and remove unnecessary catheters. One more important step has to be included: allow nurses to call attention to doctors who fail to follow the checklist. More hospitals are gradually adopting this proven checklist, but we need leaders like you to get all of our area hospitals to join up. Dr. Pronovost's national program gives hospitals technical support on implementing the checklist. To see which hospitals in your district are participating, go to his program's website at http://www.safercare.net/OTCSBSI/Participation.html This checklist is effective, it saves lives and money, and it doesn't cost the state anything. Would you please use your influence by urging hospitals in your district to participate in this lifesaving program?

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