As the AJC’s Carrie Teegardin reported Sunday, 18 hospitals across Georgia — including some of the most highly regarded health care facilities — rank among the worst in the nation for rates of life-threatening bloodstream infections, surgical site infections, dangerous diarrhea or other serious conditions that patients can pick up while hospitalized. Today, a CDC doctor writes about positive steps Georgia has taken on the issue. Our other two columns deal with HIV law and the South’s high incidence of the illness.

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