[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 2173]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         HEALTHY HOSPITALS ACT

  (Mr. TIM MURPHY of Pennsylvania asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. TIM MURPHY of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, here's today's grisly 
toll. 235,626 cases, 11,661 deaths, and a cost of $5.89 billion. What 
I'm talking about here are the number of people who obtain and die and 
the overall cost of infections in our hospitals every year, from MRSA, 
from pneumonia and other infections. It is time that Congress got 
serious about this.
  In the last 3 years since I've first introduced this bill, 90,000 
people have died each year from infections they pick up at hospitals. 
It is time we pass the Healthy Hospitals Act, H.R. 1174, and work to 
make sure our hospitals are safer.

                          ____________________