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Episode 17
Quest for Safety: One Family’s Story Fuels the Fight to Eradicate Healthcare-Associated Infections

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Victoria Nahum is cofounder and executive director of the Safe Care Campaign, an organization created to help eradicate healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). Nahum, who lost her stepson to an HAI, told her family’s story at a Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. In this podcast, recorded at that press conference, she shares insights on her experience and how the Safe Care Campaign is arming consumers with new tools to fight HAIs.

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