The Joint Commission Safe Care Campaign: Preventing Healthcare and Community Associated Infections

Safe Care Campaign was founded by Victoria and Armando Nahum in 2006 after 3 different members of their family were infected in 3 different hospitals in 3 different states in just 10 months’ time. Their son, Joshua died from an infection acquired in the hospital, but not until after gram negative bacteria in his skull caused so much pressure around his brain that it pushed part of his brain into his spinal column, making him a permanent ventilator - dependent quadriplegic. He was 27. To learn more about preventing healthcare and community associated infections through the campaign, click here.