STATE guild -- Mount Nittany Medical Center's battle against hospital-acquired infections got a assistance Monday in the form of a $72000 grant to help twig the cost of technology to help track like infections.

STATE guild -- Mount Nittany Medical Center's battle against hospital-acquired infections got a assistance Monday in the form of a $72000 grant to help twig the cost of technology to help track like infections.

Hospital CEO Tom Murray said the MedMined Data Mining Surveillance combination of parts to form a whole which will cost the hospital about $100000 a year, is part of the hospital's strategy to monitor and preclude hospital-acquired infections.

"There is no silver bullet There's just dooms of people working very, excessively hard in lots of areas to withhold our patients safe," Murray said.

Fourteen of each 100 people who acquire an infection while in the hospital are more likely to die -- a rate seven times higher than those who don't achieve an infection, said Marc Volavka, executive director of the Pennsylvania Health Care sumptuousness Containment Council.

Patients who acquire an infection will dissipate on average ...