The South Bruce Grey Health Centre is doing too much when it comes to infection control measures at its four facilities.
That information comes from a recent check of infection control procedures by officials from the University Health Network in Toronto.
South Bruce Grey CEO Paul Davies says the hospitals meet infection control expectations but there are some measures they’ve been taking that don’t do any good.
For example, Davies says according to epidemiologists putting patients who have been patients in a hospital during the past year does not reduce infection rates at all.
Davies says if a patient is put in isolation, all who enter the room have to be masked and gowned, and the room has to be deep cleaned twice once it becomes vacant.
He says by no longer doing it, costs will be reduced dramatically.