Time for a helpful hint for Broward Health
hospital patients:
Always ask your nurse where her
hands have been.

   Here's why....
  The three Broward hospitals where patients are most likely to become infected after surgery are operated by the tax-funded North Broward Hospita District.
   Which is one of the reasons why the Florida Hospital Association has launched an $800,000 program to encourage hospital workers in the Sunshine State to wash their hands before touching sick patients.
  “The rates of hand washing are absolutely suboptimal,” notes Dr. Clifford Ko, research director at the American College of Surgeons – which has launched a nation-wide program to encourage hand-washing in hospitals. (“Suboptimal”, by the way, is doctor talk for Really Sucks.)
   As quoted in a front page story in the Business Section of today's Sun-Sentinel, Dr. Ko goes on to explain:
   “Everyone knows we should wash our hands. The question is: How do we get everyone to do that?”
   Good question. 
   Stay tuned.

Hospitals with High Rates
Of Post Operative Infections*
Broward County
Broward General Medical Center
Coral Springs Medical Center
North Broward Medical Center
Miami Dade
Baptist Hospital
Jackson Memorial
Kendall Regional
Miami Children's
*A serious infection of the bloodstream
  caused by toxin-producing bacteria.

Source:
floridahealthfinder.gov