{"id":42004,"date":"2020-05-22T15:00:23","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T19:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/?p=42004"},"modified":"2023-06-06T17:53:34","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T21:53:34","slug":"keeping-hospitals-clean-featuring-sickert-bennett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/keeping-hospitals-clean-featuring-sickert-bennett\/","title":{"rendered":"Sickert-Bennett Tells How Hospitals Are Keeping Clean During the Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7101\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 224px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7101 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2018\/12\/emily-bennett-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Emily Sickbert-Bennett, PhD, MS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/directory\/emily-sickbert-bennett\/\"><strong>Emily Sickbert-Bennett<\/strong><\/a>, PhD, MS, associate professor of infectious diseases and director of infection prevention at UNC Medical Center, explains how hospitals are staying clean during the COVID-19 pandemic in a new <a href=\"https:\/\/healthtalk.unchealthcare.org\/how-hospitals-stay-clean-during-the-covid-19-pandemic\/\">UNC Health Talk<\/a> article.<\/p>\n<p>The article recognizes that hospitals are always committed to keeping their facilities clean and sanitary to prevent the spread of disease and infection among patients and staff, but now, they\u2019re taking extra steps to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, with extra cleanings, by separating patients and by providing special care during patient transport. Read the article <a href=\"https:\/\/healthtalk.unchealthcare.org\/how-hospitals-stay-clean-during-the-covid-19-pandemic\/\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emily Sickbert-Bennett, PhD, MS, associate professor of infectious diseases and director of infection prevention at UNC Medical Center, explains how hospitals are staying clean during the COVID-19 pandemic in a new UNC Health Talk article. 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