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A nosocomial infection occurs when an otherwise uninfected patient contracts an infectious disease while being treated in the hospital. A hospital should be the last place you need to worry about contracting an infection. When you’re hospitalized, you expect that your care will be focused on the injury or illness that brought you in and takes steps to protect you from infection. And yet, secondary infections do happen. When you contract one – such as MRSA, C-diff, gangrene or tuberculosis to name a few, as a direct result of your hospital stay, you may have a case to file a lawsuit for malpractice or neglect. Medicare will not even pay a hospital for treatment of catheter infections if acquired at the hospital and Grewer Law can help you decide how to proceed.

The global coronavirus pandemic has drastically altered “normal” life for everyone. However, while about ⅓ of the American workforce can continue to work remotely, the rest of the workforce is either unemployed or leaving their homes daily to work an essential job. For those on the front lines, whether health care workers or grocery store workers or otherwise, their health can be at risk every time they report to work.

Even before the beginning of the novel coronavirus, or COVID-19, pandemic, nursing home residents were more vulnerable to getting an infection. Older adults living in a community setting are more susceptible to infections like Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), urinary tract infections (UTI), or Clostridium difficile (C-diff).