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April 25, 2018

Bend hospital adds new UV devices to kill nasty germs

  • The mobile devices disinfect rooms — including a tool sterilization room contaminated by a sewage pipe leak.
  • By MARKIAN HAWRYLUK
    The Bulletin

    BEND, Ore. — After testing an ultraviolet light disinfection system for five months last year, St. Charles Bend has acquired three Tru-D SmartUVC devices that are now being used to kill some of the nastier germs found around the hospital.

    Since the start of the year, the hospital has used the devices to combat the flu virus and to disinfect a surgical tool sterilization room after a sewage pipe leak. But their primary task has been to reduce the cases of hospital-acquired infections, particularly a bacteria known as Clostridium difficile, which doctors often call “C. diff.”


     
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