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Thu, Aug 28, 2008 -- 9:00 AM
Hospital Acquired Infection
Hospital officials are scrambling to contact the parents of almost 1,000 babies who may have been exposed to tuberculosis at a Kaiser maternity ward in San Francisco. We take a look at efforts to reduce hospital acquired infections including MRSA.
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Host: Michael Krasny
Guests:
- Betsy McCaughey, founder and chair of the Committee to Reduce Infectious Deaths and former lieutenant governor of New York State
- Dr. Masae Kawamura, director of TB control at the San Francisco Department of Public Health
- Dr. Stephen Parodi, chair of infectious diseases at Kaiser Permanente
- Elaine Alquist, California state senator representing San Jose and Silicon Valley and sponsor of a bill mandating that California hospitals report infectious diseases