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Holy Family earns award

Posted May 07, 2010 11:00 pm

DES PLAINES - Resurrection's Holy Family Medical Center has received the 2010 Goldberg Innovation Award from the National Association of Long Term Hospitals for the Chlorhexidine Bath Wipes Study which found an alternative way to reduce hospital-acquired infections by almost half for medically complex patients.

The study had a highly significant 47 percent reduction in the Central Line Acquired Blood Stream infection rate during the three-month pilot. Based on these findings, Holy Family Medical Center began an intensive Phase II clinical trial to test these results with a larger patient population.

The initial study of the chlorhexidine bath wipes was conducted at John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital by a team which included Dr. Susan Bleasdale, and Drs. Robert Weinstein and Ines Gonzalez.

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