Why are MicroGuard materials needed?
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, hospital-acquired infections affect 1.7 million people each year and cost over $20 billion. Over 99,000 people die annually from hospital-acquired infections. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has announced that the agency will no longer pay for preventable hospital acquired-infections. The most common hospital-acquired infection is MRSA, which has more than tripled since 2000. When you consider that the average MRSA case costs approximately $28,000 to treat, hospitals certainly need additional infection control measures, such as MicroGuard, which kills 99.9% of MRSA causing bacteria within two hours.
