The District of Columbia has the second-dirtiest hospitals in the country, according to a new study that looked at the infection rate per hospital and other metrics.
In the study from health care staffing platform Nursa, Delaware ranked as having the dirtiest hospitals with a 9.59 out of 10, followed by the District at 9.41, Alabama at 9.11, Michigan at 8.54, Connecticut at 8.41, North Carolina at 8.39, North Dakota at 8.27, Missouri at 8.2, Maryland at 8.19 and Arizona at 8.18.
Nursa tabulated scores based on the number of infections from patient visits per hospital in 2023, the number of inspections that found a hospital to be dirty per hospital from 2010-25, and the percentage of reports received that said bathrooms and rooms were sometimes or never clean from the most recent Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems survey…