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Hospital Aquired Infections
CNN Health News   1/11:  Don't Let a Hospital Kill Your Child

"It's frustrating, because some hospitals say there's nothing they
can do about their C. diff rates," Dr. Torress-Cook says.
CNN Health News   06/09:  Unsung Heros Work Hard to Cut HAI

Torress-Cook is part of a growing movement in medicine that no
longer accepts hospital-acquired infections as inevitable.
Fox Network News    08/08
Local Doctor Finds New Ways to Prevent
Hospital-acquired Infections  

When people go to the hospital, they are not
supposed to get more sick while there. But in a
very disturbing trend, more and more patients
are picking up stubborn, dangerous infections
while in the hospital. Now one doctor is
fighting back using a common-sense plan of
attack, and drugs have nothing to do with it.
MSNBC Healthcare   5/08
Watch What You Touch, A Bad Germ Gets Worse

"The biggest problem in our hospitals is that they are filthy
dirty,” said Dr. Alfonso Torress-Cook,  
Media Health Leaders    6/08
Beyond the White Gloves   

"At Pacific Hospital in Long Beach, CA, controlling infection is a matter of
simple hygiene for both the facility and its patients, says Alfonso Torress-Cook,
hospital epidemiologist."
Los Angeles Times    10/07
Gov. Vetos hospital disclosure proposal    

"Hospitals are afraid that they will lose some prestige," said Dr. Alfonso
Torress-Cook, an epidemiologist at the hospital. "We went ahead and said 'this is
who we are. Mistakes are made because we are human, but we are striving for
perfection.'"  
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