MRSA is also prevalent in the prisons which have recently taken away "state soap" to cut costs. Isn't this a Health Dept. issue and what's being done about it ?

My 2 year old grandson had surgery done at Childrens hospital in 09-08. Even though we were told the surgery went well, 1 week later he spent another 10 days there in isolation. The "diagnosis" was TB. However, after days of testing, he had gotten a staph infection in his incision. He was on antibiotics through a pic-line for 30 days as well as an oral antibiotic. Thank God he is now healthy but, my views of Children's hospital have changed drastically....for the worse.

A family member of mine contracted MRSA, Strep, and some other bacteria from Drake. Talk about dirty places!

C-difficile is the new one. It is from poor handwashing and overdose of antibiotics. So wash your hands Docs and everyone between patients. Visitors also.

My Mother broke her hip and was operated on at Mercy Fairfield. She was 94 yrs old but in very good health. Her family Dr. said she would live to be 100. That was before .she contacted MRSA at Mercy. The family had to wear masks and gowns to visit her. Eventually she got an infection so bad, it affected her lungs and she developed pneumonia. One night a nurse left a blood pressure cuff on her arm all night long. Her arm was swollen beyond belief. She ended up passing away and to this day I believe and hold Mercy Hospital Fairfield responsible. Her health was excellent before this terrible infectionn.

About 2 yrs. ago my husband was admitted to UC Hospital for kidney stones. When he came out of surgery and admitted to his room the night shift nurse did not attach the drainage tube to a bag and he was left in the drainage overnight. As a result, my husband contracted E-Coli. It took over 4 days to identify the E-Coli and he spend the next 3 months going back and forth from this filthy hospital trying to control and get rid of this infection. For being such a "Award Winning" hospital, I have seen at least 3 members of my own family contract infections from the hospital after simple procedures and the hospital had very little concern to their rooms being clean/sanitized, nurses being caring, or having any concern with follow-up care to the problems that were given to their patients from receiving care there.

Please read my comment, although it's long it has good and valuable information. It's important.

One of the biggest problems is this new idea of "Family Centered Care", the allowing of any and all people to visit patients in the hospital. It's very nice on the surface, but just think for a moment about everything "germ wise" people bring in from their jobs, their children's schools, day care and wherever else. Just because "you" aren't sick doesn't mean you aren't carrying something. Hospitals are no longer "sacred ground", people contaminate everything in them all the time. They come to visit and touch everything, kiss patients and bring small children to visit people who would be most benefitted by a visit after a hospital stay. It would probably be the best if hospitals stopped all of this nonsense of allowing every person to visit, kept it to those terminally ill and could maintain sterile conditions. People who don't work in the hospital setting have no idea that changing chairs or making phone calls in a "clean" room contaminates everything. It's time we put a stop to letting the general public run the show. Hospitals are for sick people and those who are hired and trained in the ways to take care of them. Send a card, flowers or a phone call, but don't come and touch everything and then fondle all over Grandpa when he is alreay sick enough. Visit when they get home, make a meal, go grocery shopping, but please remember that you are exposed to many things and you carry all of that with you when you come to see patients that are already sick. It's actually best to let them rest in the hospital and visitors generally wear out patients because they have to stay awake to "entertain" you. Help them when they get home, help them in the hospital by staying home. Thanks.

20 years ago scientist's warned the the continued over use of antibacterials would cause Bacteria to become resistant to traditional Antibiotics resulting in potentially deadly infections. 10 years ago scientist's went before congress and warned of the dangers of selling massive amounts of Antibacterials to consumers. Once again they warned of resistant pathogens and the risk that more and more people would die from infection. We new, we were warned about this; because of the profits made by selling these products the warnings fell upon deaf ears.The problem isn't that facilities are dirty, the problem is they use industrial strength bacteria killers all over the place. Isn't it ironic that buying these products to prevent disease we actually are making the germs stronger. MRSA is pretty bad but wait till you see what flesh eating disease can do.

It's hard to believe but our hospitals are not as clean as we think they are..... I was hospitalize in 2006 while living in Florida......I contracted MRSA in the incision and it took weeks for it to heal..... I also went into a Cincinnati,Oh area hospital in 2/08 and again was told I had MRSA.....I was givin medicine for this and a prescription for 18 pills which had a price $1380.00...... Thru the hospital I got the med, for a $5.00 copay.....Beware R.Wilson