• Over 1.7 million people contract infections in U.S. hospitals each year. This includes 880,000 MRSA infections alone.[1]
   
• If you multiply the number of infections in the U.S. by the average cost of treating those infections (about $15,000), you see that annually it costs U.S. hospitals $25.5 billion.[2]
   
• Many hospital acquired infections are not covered by Medicare[3].
  

Can you afford not to reduce the transmission of infectious diseases?

[1]RID: How Many Infections
[2]RID: Cost of Infection
[3]Infectious Diseases Society of America