Taking Care of You and Your Family

Whether you're going in for a routine visit or a more complicated procedure, you want everything to go smoothly. Working together with your healthcare team, ASP provides infection prevention technologies and solutions that are used to sterilize and disinfect the surgical instruments used in the hospital and help keep you safe from sickness-causing germs and bacteria. Our products help ensure that your doctors and practitioners are using only the safest, cleanest instruments and devices in their everyday procedures and operations.

Resources

• Safe Care Campaign was founded by Victoria and Armando Nahum in 2006 after 3 different members of their family were infected in 3 different hospitals in 3 different states in just 10 months’ time.
  Their son, Joshua died from an infection acquired in the hospital, but not until after gram negative bacteria in his skull caused so much pressure around his brain that it pushed part of his brain into his spinal column, making him a permanent ventilator - dependent quadriplegic.
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Handwashing: Clean Hands Save Lives
  Keeping hands clean through improved hand hygiene is one of the most important steps we can take to avoid getting sick and spreading germs to others.
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has unveiled an innovative new website to help parents and other consumers learn about the most effective way to protect themselves and their children from infectionous diseases and learn about immunization.
• Information Patient Insitute rates websites that can help you find the right doctor, hosptial, nursing home or other health care provider.
• Consumer's Union Safe Patient Project. View disclosures of health care outcomes (such as hospital-acquired infection rates and incidents of medical errors) and information about health care providers (such as complaints against and license violations of physicians and hospitals). The campaign also works to improve drug safety by ensuring that consumers have full information about prescription drugs (such as in direct-to-consumer ads and access to clinical trial results), by strengthening oversight of the FDA and by ending practices that create conflicts of interest (such as drug company gifts to doctors).
• There’s no better time to work on improving patient safety by enhancing your infection prevention efforts! ASP can help … check out our list of ASP Resources for Improving Patient Safety.
  READ MORE
• 3 simple steps to keep your family protected from contracting and spreading illness
  READ MORE
• Patient Safety Tool: Guide For Patients When Leaving Your Facility
  READ MORE