{"374941":{"#nid":"374941","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Healthcare-associated Infections Keep Industry On High Alert","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAlthough recent Ebola cases have garnered the national spotlight, healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) claim the lives of 99,000 Americans every year. Not only is the human toll of HAIs staggering, the cost of treating them in the U.S. is estimated by the\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ECenters for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to be upwards of $20 billion\u2014one of the reasons why hospitals are facing reductions in Medicare payments if they don\u2019t reduce HAIs by 2015.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMuch of the effort to reduce infections centers on protocols and process. However, there\u2019s general consensus and increasing evidence that the design of the built environment plays an important role in preventing HAIs in healthcare facilities.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"28008","created_gmt":"2015-02-09 16:45:13","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:23:54","author":"Bobby Macedonia","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"musicology","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.healthcaredesignmagazine.com\/article\/healthcare-associated-infections-keep-industry-high-alert","dateline":{"date":"2014-12-16T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2014-12-16T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}