Schwarzenegger signs bills to combat staph outbreaks in hospitals
Friday, September 26, 2008 - 02:14
in Health & Medicine
The measures require hospitals to strengthen efforts to prevent the spread of bacteria and to reveal to the public their infection rates. The governor previously vetoed similar legislation. With patients facing increasing threats from antibiotic-resistant "super bugs," Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Thursday signed two measures requiring California hospitals to strengthen their efforts at preventing staph outbreaks and to reveal to the public their rates of infection.