Rio Grande Regional Hospital is a general medical and surgical hospital in McAllen, TX, with 320 beds. Survey data for the latest year available shows that 38,307 patients visited the hospital's emergency room. The hospital had a total of 15,501 admissions. Its physicians performed 5,340 inpatient and 4,189 outpatient surgeries.Infection Control Nurses, sometimes-called infection prevention nurses, help prevent patient infections in hospitals and clinics. They instruct other nurses and health care staff on proper sanitation procedures; they also study patients’ bacteria to identify any infections that may have possibly resulted from a patient's health care. Infection control nurses are usually the ones responsible for notifying the closest branch of the Centers for Disease Control.
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Rio Grande Regional Hospital is a general medical and surgical hospital in McAllen, TX, with 320 beds. Survey data for the latest year available shows that 38,307 patients visited the hospital's emergency room. The hospital had a total of 15,501 admissions. Its physicians performed 5,340 inpatient and 4,189 outpatient surgeries.Infection Control Nurses, sometimes-called infection prevention nurses, help prevent patient infections in hospitals and clinics. They instruct other nurses and health care staff on proper sanitation procedures; they also study patients’ bacteria to identify any infections that may have possibly resulted from a patient's health care. Infection control nurses are usually the ones responsible for notifying the closest branch of the Centers for Disease Control.
