Contamination Statistics, MRSA, Bedrails 2 min read. You'll Never Look At A Bedrail The Same Way Again. Erica Mitchell December 12 2025 Imagine you are a physician doing rounds in a hospital. You and a colleague walk into the room of a patient infected with MRSA. You are careful to... Read more
Contamination Statistics, Bedrails, Infection Control, Hospitals, Germs, HAIs, Cleaning Protocols, Patient Safety, Design, Epidemiology, Interventions, Cost-Effectiveness, Public Health, Public Reporting 3 min read. DALYs and QALYs + HAIs: The Costly Connection Erica Mitchell June 12 2023 In our previous posts about DALYs and QALYs, we have defined the terms and presented how the healthcare field calculates these two measures of... Read more
Bedrails, Product Evaluation, Environmental Services, Cleaning Protocols, Patient Safety, Design, Evidence-Based Design 2 min read. What is "Easy to Clean"? Erica Mitchell June 15 2022 Read any hospital design article or walk the floors of any healthcare trade show and you will see these three words: "Easy to Clean." With the... Read more