Accountability to Our Patients

Infection Control and You: Tracking Infection Rates in the hospital

Measuring MRSA, VRE and C. difficile rates
UHN posts its infection rates online on a quarterly basis. Here you can find information about hospital-acquired infection rates for:

UHN MRSA, VRE and C.difficile Rates
More detailed information on rates by UHN site can be found in the Perfomance Measures section.

Information for Patients and Families

What is MRSA?
What is VRE?
What is C.Diff?

What does hospital acquired mean?
Sometimes when patients are admitted to the hospital, they get infections while they are in the hospital. This is a hospital-acquired infection or a nosocomial infection. Usually it is MRSA, VRE or C. Diff.

How do we control the spread of these infections?
The Infection Prevention and Control Unit is responsible for working with employees, visitors and patients to minimize hospital-acquired infections. To control the spread of these infections, we use routine practices such as:

•	hand washing,
•	environmental cleaning,
•	sterilization of equipment,
•	single use of supplies,
•	education, and
•	additional isolation precautions.

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