Flemington NJ. Nice place, I've driven thru it quite a few times on my way to Pennsylvania. At Hunterdon Medical Center in Flemington they are working on reducing hospital caused infections. They are into housekeeping, scrub everything down to kill off lurking bacteria. They have a fancy new scanner that can detect bacteria on doorknobs, bed railings, tray tables, water faucets etc. They are issuing stronger cleaners and disinfectants, trying to kill nasty bugs like Clostridium difficile and MSRA.
Not a bad plan. Better to kill 'em off with Clorox on the mop than with antibiotics inside patients.
Then we get to the "hard-to-clean" stuff like computer keyboards. According to the Wall St. Journal article, Hunterdon is paying $15,000 EACH for washable computer keyboard.
Wow. $15,000 for a KEYBOARD!
Google tells me I can get a washable computer keyboard for $19.99.
Either the WSJ has a typo or Hunterdon is getting ripped off big time.
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