[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 116 (Thursday, July 19, 2007)]
[House]
[Page H8124]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        HOSPITAL INFECTION RATES

  (Mr. TIM MURPHY of Pennsylvania asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TIM MURPHY of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, here are some grim 
statistics.
  As of today, 1,095,890 cases, 49,320 deaths, and a cost of 
$27,397,260,282. This is not a war. These are infections that people 
pick up in hospitals, and these are based upon CDC estimates of 90,000 
deaths per year. But a more recent study came from the Association for 
Professionals in Infection Control, say the numbers can be as high as 
119,000 deaths and 12 million cases per year.
  When will we start acting to make sure that we have all hospitals 
act, as so many have done, to eliminate infections from hospitals?
  I ask my colleagues to cosponsor and to help pass H.R. 1174, the 
Healthy Hospitals Act. It is time we stop wasting health care dollars, 
health insurance dollars and wasting lives and start saving lives in 
hospitals the way so many hospitals have been able to do. Please, let's 
get moving to make our hospitals healthier.

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