Penrose Will Test Patients for 'Supergerm'
Gazette, The; Colorado Springs, Colo. › October 02, 2007
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Beginning today, every patient entering Penrose Hospital's intensive care unit will be tested for a "supergerm" resistant to commonly prescribed antibiotics, a practice that will expand to the entire hospital in coming months.
Medical staff and visitors will be required to wear gowns and gloves when seeing patients who test positive for the germ, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA.See the full content of this document
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Penrose Will Test Patients for 'Supergerm'
Although the stubborn bug has existed in hospitals for decades, Pen- rose is one of the first in Colorado to go on the offensive in sto...
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