Boca Raton, FL (PRWEB) June 13, 2013
Family-owned and independently operated Regents Park Boca Raton has opened its doors to Columbia University researchers intent on learning a lot more about infection handle practices in nursing residences and how properly they thwart healthcare-associated infections.

The study, funded by the National Institute of Nursing Study, is timely given that the population of nursing house residents is expected to enhance in coming years. Statistics indicate that some 1.6 million to three.eight million infections happen annually in nursing residences in the United States a dilemma for facilities that typically specialize in the care of the elderly and often frail people.

Regents Park Boca Raton, a 180-bed facility in Boca Raton, Florida, is a single of 12 nursing homes nationwide to invite researchers into the facility to conduct 1-on-one particular interviews with important employees involved in infection manage. Researchers started qualitative, in-depth interviews at Regents on June 11.

Its an honor to be involved with a system that Columbia University would do, stated Gilda Osborn, administrator at Regents Park Boca Raton. I really feel we have one of the greatest infection handle programs out there. We perform challenging on prevention, not only simply because prevention can curb infections, but simply because in the lengthy run prevention is substantially less costly than just trying to treat infections. It behooves all facilities to look toward prevention, not just trying to deal with infections that have currently occurred.

Tova Sacher, Regents assistant director of nursing and the facilitys infection handle director, explained that despite the fact that the state mandates annual in-service training sessions to maintain staff educated about infection handle, Regents has long performed practically month-to-month in-service classes. These sessions are also intended to preserve nursing employees conscious of newly developing infections, trends in infections and, of course, procedures to avert and treat them.

It in fact comes down to a quality of life concern, and we have to advocate for the residents, said Ms. Sacher. We want to preserve healthful residents from acquiring an infection and assist those with an infection get greater. Thats specifically important because have been often dealing with folks who reside in close quarters and already have compromised well being issues. We have to keep on prime of almost everything.

Regents Park Boca Raton is no stranger to efforts intended to help the nursing home industry as a complete. In addition to the Columbia University study program, it is also a participant in the Decreasing Healthcare Acquired Situations Project, which is sponsored by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Solutions. That project aims to decrease the price of stress ulcers and boost the wellness and good quality of care for nursing home residents.

To augment individual interviews for its study program, Columbia University is also mailing 3,000 surveys to eligible nursing homes. It is uncertain when the research will be completed and final results compiled.

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Regents Park Boca Raton is an independently owned and operated skilled nursing and rehabilitation facility in Boca Raton, Florida. It offers complete solutions to each lengthy-term and brief-term residents. The facility has been a household owned operation since 1991.