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Hospitals, Using Single-Bed Rooms And Improved Ventilation, Work To Get Healthier

WITH hospital-acquired infections claiming more American lives each year than AIDS, breast cancer or automobile accidents, it seems the very facilities built to heal us have themselves become dangerous places.

Two million patients each year suffer from a hospital-acquired infection, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say, and nearly 100,000 of them die as a result. Architects believe that doesn't have to be the case.

To read more click on Disease Control and Prevention.

posted by Mike @ 9:32 AM