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With money at risk, hospitals push staff to wash hands

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Free coffee for doctors and nurses who wash their hands? Orwelian-esque devices that determine how often medical professionals are washing? What sounds like farce and fantasy is in fact a reality at North Shore University Hospital on Long Island where the fear of losing Medicare money under new federal rules if patients get preventable diseases has sparked the effort.