Opinion: Hospitals must treat infection control as a priority, not a profit center
For years, hospitals penny-pinching on infection control has been an open secret. Whether Covid-19 will puncture that pre-pandemic complacency is open question. But it’s long past time for every hospital to treat infection control as a priority, not as a profit center.
Even before Covid-19 appeared, tens of thousands of patients died each year from preventable infections acquired during treatment. The contagious nature of the coronavirus has vastly increased the number of those at risk, with health care workers themselves now routinely endangered.
