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| Steiros™ LLC Infection Control Consultants - Serving the USA - US Patent Pending www.Steiros.com - (562)997-2232 - email: infectioncontrol@steiros.com |
| KQED Public Radio: The California Report: Preventing Hospital-Acquired 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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