{"id":1606,"date":"2013-08-30T17:35:13","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T17:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctcps.org\/blog\/?p=1606"},"modified":"2014-12-30T14:45:12","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T14:45:12","slug":"clean-sweep-hospitals-bring-janitors-to-the-front-lines-of-infection-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=1606","title":{"rendered":"Clean Sweep: Hospitals Bring Janitors to the Front Lines of Infection Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientific American By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/author.cfm?id=1844\">Maryn McKenna<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 September 11, 2012\u00a0 When hospitals want to make a name for themselves, they spend on reputations and technology\u2014on the esteemed surgeon or the top-of-the-line gamma knife and the star radiologist to operate it. Such investments attract publicity as well as patients seeking the best available health care. Lately, though, some hospitals have been making an unexpected discovery. The kinds of expenditures that truly improve patient care are often not directed at the top of their pay scale, with the famous specialists, but rather at the bottom, with the anonymous janitors. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/hospitals-bring-janitors-front-lines-of-infection-control\/\">Continue Reading.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientific American By Maryn McKenna\u00a0\u00a0 September 11, 2012\u00a0 When hospitals want to make a name for themselves, they spend on reputations and technology\u2014on the esteemed surgeon or the top-of-the-line gamma <\/p>\n<p class=\"readMore\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=1606\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[76,132,75,120,198],"class_list":["post-1606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsroom","tag-c-diff","tag-centers-for-medicare-and-medicaid-services","tag-clostridium-difficile","tag-hospital-acquired-infections","tag-mrsa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1606"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1803,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions\/1803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}