WHEREAS, infection prevention and control professionals are devoted to patient and health care worker safety and are committed to reducing the risk and occurrence of healthcare-associated infections.

WHEREAS, the prevention of healthcare-associated infections is instrumental in achieving this goal.

WHEREAS, every year, more than 800 million Americans visit their physicians and over 33 million are admitted to hospitals, with many undergoing medical procedures that have a risk of infectious complications.

WHEREAS, healthcare-associated infections increase morbidity and mortality and add a significant financial burden to the cost of health care.

WHEREAS, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC), representing more than 11,000 Infection Prevention and Control Professionals, sponsors International Infection Prevention Week with this year's theme being “International Infection Prevention Week: It's In Your Hands.”

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Sarah Palin, Governor of the State of Alaska, do hereby proclaim October 14 -20, 2007, as:

International Infection Prevention Week

in Alaska, and call upon all health care providers in the many health care facilities of Alaska to observe this week with the appropriate programs and activities and to renew their efforts to prevent healthcare-associated infections, thereby reducing the burden of human suffering and disease.

Dated: September 12, 2007
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