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| Attacking from the inside out |
| By Sarah Etter, News Reporter |
| Published: 11/13/2006 |
Last week, Corrections.com reporter Sarah Etter explored the legal battle surrounding MRSA. This week, she takes a look at one facility that has taken preventative measures in its clash with disease.
Handshaking and offender pat-downs can be the epicenter for an MRSA outbreak; some facilities report upwards of 200 MSRA cases a month, leading to costly treatments and litigation. (Legal diseases, 11/01) Oklahoma's Tulsa County Jail is no stranger to MRSA. Tulsa County was averaging about 12 cases of staph every month, straining the medical budget of this 1,200 offender facility. Anxious to quell Oklahoma outbreaks, County Chief Deputy Tim Albin spoke with other jail administrators throughout the area to share prevention tactics. “MRSA can be an extremely big issue in jails,” he says. “We decided to step up on this issue when we found out that a smaller jail about 50 miles away was reporting tons of MRSA cases, and I knew darn well we were sharing inmates with that facility.” Officials initially focused on the intake center, where 80 to 100 offenders are booked daily. Tulsa County officials trained employees on how to conduct rigorous visual checks since MRSA often leaves telltale skin legions. Staff also learned to watch for spider bite marks. “We are very familiar with spider bites out here in Oklahoma,” Albin says. “But MRSA legions initially look like them, so we are extra careful when we look at people who have even the smallest red mark.” Good personal hygiene can help fight against the bacteria too, so offenders and officers are now reminded to diligently wash hands and keep cells clean. Tulsa County also uses a corrections-friendly cleaner known as Staph Attack. “Since we've started using SA, we haven't had a case of MRSA in two months,” explains Albin. “It kills everything: MRSA, HIV, common cold germs. [Staph Attack] is great stuff for us.” SA was developed by PURE Bioscience after it was discovered that many cleaners contain toxic chemicals like ammonia, chloride and ethanol, which are prohibited from entering facilities because of the risk that they may fall into inmate hands. So the company replaced those chemicals with silver dihydrogen citrate, a molecule they created using a citrus base. The product is safe to use, meets ACA standards and kills MRSA germs. MRSA bacteria view SA as a food source and eat it. Once the cleanser is ingested, it destroys the bacteria's metabolism, essentially killing bacteria from the inside out. While it's fatal to MRSA, SA is safe enough for officials that they don't have to wear masks or gloves during cleaning. “You can drink this product and you won't die,” says, Jeff Donnell, a co-owner of EnviroGuard, an SA distributor. “But it still kills germs and it's especially effective for MRSA. We have yet to see a strain of MRSA that is resistant to this cleanser. Corrections deals with a lot of these infections on a reoccurring basis, but this cleanser can cut down on that.” In Tulsa County, the cleanser is a mandatory on every shift. “We use it to wipe down our mattresses constantly. We wipe off all of the surfaces in booking and intake at least once a shift,” Albin adds. “This is helping us protect our offenders, certainly, but it's helping us protect our staff and their families too. That's a huge priority for us.” It lasts a long time too. Once applied, 24-hour residual germ-killers remain on surfaces. “This was a combination of training and a great product,” says Albin. “The best way to attack MRSA is not to have it at all, and that's our new philosophy in Tulsa.” Bottom Line: If your facility is struggling with MRSA, a corrections-friendly cleaner, along with rigorous sanitary practices might just be the thing. Check out PURE Bioscience and EnviroGuard for more information. Related Resources: Legal diseases, 11/1/06 Staph wipes out cleaning budget, Tribune Review, 9/12/06 |
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