Hospital Acquired Infections (HAI) kill an estimated 90,000 people in US hospitals every year. These individuals enter the hospital to address specific health problems, and die from an infection that directly results from their stay in the hospital. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is one on the most lethal of the HAIs.
In August 2005 the PDI began collaborating with the Pittsburgh VA hospital (VAPHS) to utilize PD to address the problem of MRSA. The PD approach enabled the hospital to reduce MRSA infection by an estimated 50%. To read about the VAPHS story, click here.
Based on the success of the VAPHS MRSA-reduction program, the Plexus Institute in collaboration with the PDI secured a grant from the RWJ Foundation to expand the program to an additional 5 hospitals; Albert Einstein Medical Center (Philadelphia, PA), Billings Clinic (Billings, MT), Franklin Square Hospital Center (Baltimore, MD), The Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore, MD), and University of Louisville Hospital (Louisville, KY).
Currently more than 60 hospitals and health care facilities in the US and Colombia are using the PD approach to address MRSA
Below are several related articles which detail the efforts of these hospitals to reduce MRSA infections.
Eistein Hospital: More we than me. Deeper Learning 1(5), Plexus Institute.
VAPHS: Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. Deeper Learning 1(4), Plexus Institute.
Billings: Billings Clinic program to control MRSA in full swing. Billings Gazette.
Franklin Square (St. Joseph's & Union Memorial): Hospitals in step to stamp out MRSA. Nurses.com.
General: The MRSA Issue (PD section only). Emerging. Plexus Institute.