Littleton Adventist Hospital - Littleton, CO Review

Littleton Adventist Hospital is a good, relatively effective healthcare center.  Care received has been generally acceptable and has led to full recovery of family members.  However I am told a very common problem among US hospitals and unfortunately a vital area which this one needs improvement in is general hospital cleanliness.  I am told forty years or more ago most hostpitals had daily wipedowns of all surfaces with a mild bleach solution to minimize the spread of disease - everyone got into the act and disease spread was minimal.  We saw no one wiping down surfaces during our latest 23 day stay.  No one!  One result is that the hospital was frequently notifying staff and patients that "c-dif" had spread throughout the facility, with effected patients quarantined and subjected to many inconvienences.  My opinion is managed care administration has removed the "excess" expense in US hospitals that did fund higher levels of daily disease prevention like surface level wipedowns. Thus managed care has reduced the level of health care provided, not improved it.  There are several other areas this center needs improvement.