Hospital Infections Attorneys
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware

Thousand of patients each year contract infections - often fatal - while they are hospitalized. In a recently released survey it was reported that 19,154 patients suffered infections contracted while in Pennsylvania hospitals, with 2,478 dying as a result of those infections. If you or someone you love contracted a hospital infection that resulted in serious illness, injury or death, you may want to contact a hospital infections attorney today.

The survey of 168 hospitals was conducted by the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council, an independent state agency, and included a study of 1.6 million patient hospitalizations. The survey results were released Nov. 14, 2006.

The survey looked at four types of hospital infections. They were bloodstream infections from IVs, ventilator-associated, pneumonia, urinary tract infections from catheters and infections at surgical sites.

The council's executive director, Marc P. Volavka, was quoted in The Philadelphia Inquirer as saying that "every patient that enters a hospital is at risk for a hospital-acquired infection." He said such infections are the result of "flawed processes" of care and hygiene. Indeed, a major cause of infection was noted as poor hand washing by hospital personnel.