New Technology Tests for MRSA Infection - results in a few hours

MRSA screening and tests alive and well at this hospital...setting the mark perhaps for others to join in? Lot of lab work going on...BD

ROCKFORD - New technology at OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center tests patients for the bacterial infection MRSA in a matter of hours.
There's a lot of lab work going on in the basement at OSF. A new machine tests for MRSA. The hospital recently started screening more patients using high-tech equipment. Infection Control Medical Technician Larry Brown says, "Because of the state law that Illinois put into effect in August we are required to screen all admissions to our ICU, every hospital in Illinois is."
When a patient answer's yes, it's time for the nasal swab. "If any one of the criteria is met, the nurse takes the sample right then."