Alamance Regional Medical Center in Burlington, N.C., is the latest hospital to join a two-year study, sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, that will measure the effectiveness of using no-touch environmental UV disinfection technology to clean in healthcare facilities.
Effectively removing surface contamination is an important step in reducing hospital-acquired infections (HAIs), but infection-causing germs are growing increasingly resistant to chemical cleaners, so healthcare facilities are challenged with finding new technologies like UV disinfection to get the job done.
Tru-D SmartUVC is the selected disinfection system for the study. According to the manufacturer, the patented technology destroys bacteria, spores and viruses and quickly reaches areas that are difficult to target and disinfect using traditional cleaning methods.
The nine-hospital study looks at four specific pathogens that persist in the hospital environment: MRSA, VRE, C. difficile and Acinetobacter.
Other hospitals involved in the study include Duke University Hospital, North Carolina Memorial Hospital at UNC, Rex Healthcare, High Point Regional Hospital, Durham Regional Hospital, Duke Raleigh Hospital, Durham VA Medical Center and Chesapeake Regional Medical Center. Alamance Regional and the other participating hospitals are members of the Duke Infection Control Outreach Network.
More information on Tru-D can be found at Tru-D.com.
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