Healthcare
Stay healthy at the hospital
Protect yourself to ensure a speedy recovery and avoid infections and readmission.
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Whether you go in for surgery, testing, or an outpatient procedure, your hospital stay can pose further health risks if you are not careful.
"Your potential risks depend in part on why you have to go into the hospital and the facility itself, but there are steps you can take to minimize your risk, especially when it comes to developing hospital-acquired infections that can lead to a longer hospital stay or readmission," says Dr. Erica Shenoy, an infectious diseases specialist and associate chief of infection control at Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital.
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