Interesting article from The Vancouver Sun- Fraser Health spends $520,000 to deep clean five hospitals

Fraser Health has spent almost $520,000 conducting "super cleans" at five of its hospitals to deal with the issue of C. difficile.

On Friday, spokesman Roy Thorpe-Dorward said deep cleans have now been done at Burnaby Hospital, Royal Columbian Hospital, Langley Memorial Hospital, Peace Arch Hospital and Surrey Memorial Hospital.
The deep cleans - which were done twice a day in two steps using a sporacidal bleach - were conducted over a period of between two to three weeks at each hospital, Thorpe-Dorward said, adding the total price tag was $519,943.

The intensive cleaning regimens were ordered after public attention was focused on the issue of C. difficile at Burnaby Hospital earlier this year.

In February, a letter from eight senior doctors surfaced revealing serious concerns over the fact that 84 patients with C. difficile had died at the hospital between 2009 and mid-2011. Rates of the infection at the hospital had been ranging between two to three times the national average, the doctors said.

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