Bill Text: IL SR0516 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Proclaims April 1-7, 2012 as MRSA Testing Week in the State of Illinois to coincide with International MRSA Testing Week.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2012-03-08 - Resolution Adopted [SR0516 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2011-SR0516-Introduced.html
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1 | SENATE RESOLUTION
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2 | WHEREAS, Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus | ||||||
3 | (MRSA) causes deadly infections in patients receiving | ||||||
4 | treatment in health care facilities and affects numerous | ||||||
5 | individuals in the community; and
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6 | WHEREAS, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has | ||||||
7 | estimated that hospital-acquired MRSA infections kill more | ||||||
8 | than 19,000 individuals in the United States every year; and
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9 | WHEREAS, More than 200 studies support the need for active | ||||||
10 | detection (screening) of at-risk patients, upon admission to a | ||||||
11 | healthcare facility, to identify MRSA carriers who are | ||||||
12 | infected, reducing the chance of a patient acquiring a MRSA | ||||||
13 | infection and reducing the reservoir of transmission in the | ||||||
14 | facility; and
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15 | WHEREAS, Testing and decontaminating of frequently touched | ||||||
16 | surfaces and other environments for MRSA and other pathogens | ||||||
17 | can help reduce the reservoir of transmission to patients and | ||||||
18 | community members; and
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19 | WHEREAS, Patient and consumer advocacy organizations are | ||||||
20 | calling upon health care officials and government leaders to | ||||||
21 | step up and take a more comprehensive approach to stopping MRSA |
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1 | through implementation of active detection (screening) of | ||||||
2 | high-risk patients and decontaminating frequently touched | ||||||
3 | surfaces; and
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4 | WHEREAS, MRSA Survivors Network, the first consumer | ||||||
5 | organization in Illinois and the United States to raise | ||||||
6 | awareness concerning the MRSA epidemic and other such | ||||||
7 | multi-drug resistant health care-acquired infections, has | ||||||
8 | announced that April 1-7, 2012, has been designated as | ||||||
9 | International MRSA Testing Week in order to call attention to | ||||||
10 | this worldwide epidemic; therefore, be it
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11 | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL | ||||||
12 | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we proclaim April 1-7, | ||||||
13 | 2012 as MRSA Testing Week in the State of Illinois to coincide | ||||||
14 | with International MRSA Testing Week.
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