Skilled Nursing News October 10, 2025
There may be potential ways to reduce multi-drug resistant organisms (MDROs) on patients’ skin, but fully eliminating these super bugs within nursing homes remains a difficult task.
A recent study from researchers with the University of California Los Angeles Medical Center and the University of California Irvine School of Medicine may pose answers to cutting the bacterial load from MDROs on patients’ skin, but also showed how difficult complete eradication within a facility can be.
The results of the nine-month study were published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology. The study, conducted in three nursing homes, consisted of three-month baseline, three-month phase-in and three-month intervention phases. The study examined skin colonization of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE), extended-spectrum...
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