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The study found privacy curtains can be breeding grounds for resistant bacteria such as MRSA, an APIC news release stated. Researchers looked at the contamination rate of 10 freshly laundered privacy curtains in the Regional Burns/Plastics Unit of the Health Services Center in Winnipeg, Canada.

“The necessity for a new trial is manifest,” Judge Donald H. Hunter wrote in the court’s opinion.

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But what happened after that was when it becomes truly fascinating. Seemingly a creature of the ’70s through and through, Gabriel discovered a new artistic vitality at the dawn of the ’80s. There he was, having (mostly) ditched the theatrical costumes of his Genesis days, hair hewn short, barking and intoning over forward-thinking arrangements of synths and alien guitars, spearheading forward-thinking production techniques that could make his percussion sound brittle yet booming. (Between both of their releases around 1980, Gabriel and Collins explored the use of gated reverb on drums, thus helping define the sound of the ensuing decade.)

But starting with the newest class of residents in Hopkins’ Osler Medical Training Program, the short white coat will be retired. A younger generation of residents increasingly found the short coat offensive and said it unnecessarily distinguished them from the other residents.

The equipment was first purchased by the agency in April 2017, promising to boost the survival rate of cardiac arrest patients by allowing first responders to “be able to more effectively move patients down stairwells and in elevators, around corners and in confined spaces while reducing interruption of high-quality CPR,” OFD spokeswoman Ashley Papagni said in a press release.

Mehta-Paul, 70, made the deposit on March 21, 2011. She didn’t return to her Highland practice the next day, though she had scheduled appointments. Mehta-Paul worked as an ophthalmologist.  

Close to the diagnostic unit is the Guinness Eye Centre. The centre looks dilapidated. But just behind the Guinness Eye Centre is a newly refurbished Crystal Optics Eyeware Laboratory that houses world-class optical lenses manufacturing facility and up-to-date eye screening gadgets.

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“Keeping the patient’s environment clean is a critical component in preventing healthcare-associated infections,” 2018 APIC President Janet Haas, PhD, RN, CIC, FSHEA, FAPIC, said in the release.“Because privacy curtains could be a mode of disease transmission, maintaining a schedule of regular cleaning offers another potential way to protect patients from harm while they are in our care.”

[1] Ohl, M., et al. (2011). Hospital privacy curtains are frequently and rapidly contaminated with potentially pathogenic bacteria. Am J Infect Control. 2012 Dec; 40(10):904-6