{"id":13035,"date":"2019-04-12T05:18:37","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T09:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13035"},"modified":"2019-04-12T05:18:37","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T09:18:37","slug":"how-to-fight-scary-superbugs-cooperation-and-a-special-soap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13035","title":{"rendered":"How to Fight \u2018Scary\u2019 Superbugs? Cooperation \u2014 And A Special Soap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Anna Gorman for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Hospitals and nursing homes in California and Illinois are testing a surprisingly simple strategy against the dangerous, antibiotic-resistant superbugs that kill thousands of people each year: washing patients with a special soap.<\/p>\n<p>The efforts \u2014 funded with roughly $8 million from the federal government\u2019s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention \u2014 are taking place at 50 facilities in those two states.\u00a0 Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/how-to-fight-scary-superbugs-cooperation-and-a-special-soap\/\">article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-899\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Anna Gorman for Kaiser Health News) Hospitals and nursing homes in California and Illinois are testing a surprisingly simple<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,17,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-emerging-health-issues","category-nursing-homes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13036,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13035\/revisions\/13036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}