Infection Prevention & Control
MRSA (Colonised)
Blackrock Clinic is the first private hospital in Ireland to publish clinical performance statistics and health improvement measures on the website.
MRSA (colonised)
All high risk patients are screened for MRSA prior to admission.
Colonised MRSA can be found in the noses and on the skin of perfectly healthy people. For the most part this does not cause any harm. Prior to admission we screen all our high risk patients. As a result of those screenings the table below indicates the number of patients that we picked up as having MRSA.
Once we detect MRSA on our high risk pre admission patients we treat these patients and eradicate the MRSA prior to or on their hospital admission.
Statistics
| Year |
The number of high risk patients found to have MRSA prior to admission and successfully treated |
| 2005 |
62 |
| 2006 |
31 |
| 2007 |
34 |
| 2008 |
62 |
| 2009 |
81 |
| 2010 Q1 /Q2 |
24 |
How do we keep our MRSA rates so low?
- Most patients rooms are single occupancy
- We have a dedicated Infection Control Nurse
- Our staff are trained in excellent hand hygiene techniques
- We screen all high risk patients