{"id":5225,"date":"2016-12-06T12:48:32","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T17:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=5225"},"modified":"2016-12-06T12:48:32","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T17:48:32","slug":"dentist-at-va-hospital-improperly-cleans-tools-puts-almost-600-patients-at-risk-for-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=5225","title":{"rendered":"Dentist at VA hospital improperly cleans tools, puts almost 600 patients at risk for infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Brian Zimmerman for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A dentist working at the Tomah (Wis.) Veterans Affairs Medical Center put nearly 600 patients at risk for infection by not following proper sterilization protocols. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/quality\/dentist-at-va-hospital-improperly-cleans-tools-puts-almost-600-patients-at-risk-for-infection.html\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: 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 Brian Zimmerman for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) A dentist working at the Tomah (Wis.) Veterans Affairs Medical Center put nearly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-veterans-benefits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5225","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=5225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5226,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5225\/revisions\/5226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}