Wagga Base Hospital is sitting below the national average when it comes to patient contractions of 'golden staph' infection.
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Last year, Murrumbidgee Local Health District senior statistician David Buckley found local patients were far less likely to contract the bloodstream bacterium staphylococcus aureus.
"At Wagga Base Hospital during 2019 the rate of infections was 0.54 per 10,000 patient bed days, which is considerably less than the Australian average of 0.75," Mr Buckley said.
The national benchmark for staph infections is 2.0 cases per 10,000 days of patient care.
It comes as the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare released an apparent drop in cases of the infection nationwide over the past five years.
The institute's findings, published in Bloodstream infections associated with hospital care 2018-19 indicate 1,573 cases of infection reported in Australian public hospitals in 2018-19.
That figure is slightly elevated from the 1,491 cases presented nationwide in the prior 12-month period.
Up to 82 per cent of the cases nationwide in the past five years were treatable using antibiotics, which was an increase from 78 per cent in the five years to 2019.
Clinical Nurse Consultant for Infection Prevention and Control at the MLHD, Mary-Clare Smith, said the low instances on a local level indicates the hospital's commitment to hygiene.
"We know improving the hand hygiene of health workers is the single most effective way to reduce the risk of healthcare associated infections," Ms Smith said.
The MLHD recommends patients, staff and hospital visitors adhere to the World Health Organisation's '5 moments of hygiene', and wash hands with soap or alcohol-based rubbing solution before contact with a patient, before procedural interaction, after body fluid exposure, after contact with a patient or after touching a patients surroundings.