Whereas , Every year, more than one billion Americans visit their physicians and more than 37 million are admitted to hospitals, with many undergoing medical procedures that have a risk of infectious complications; and,

Whereas , Health care-associated infections increase mortality and add a significant financial burden to the cost of health care; and,

Whereas , The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC), representing more than 12,000 infection prevention and control professionals, sponsors International Infection Prevention Week with this year's theme being "Infection Prevention Is Everyone's Business"; and now therefore be it,

Resolved , That I, Jennifer M. Granholm, Governor of the State of Michigan, do hereby proclaim the week of October 25, 2008, as Infection Prevention Week in Michigan.