South Carolina: We’re No. 1!!!

Our citizens are broke and out of work, our kids can’t read, our government is stuck in friggin’ 1895 and our state is a perpetual punch line for the late night talk shows, but dammit if South Carolina doesn’t lead the nation in … wait for it … clean hospital hands.

In fact, South Carolina’s Hospital Association has been selected by the World Health Organization to lead a national “hand-washing” initiative, according to SCNow.com.

The association has been tapped for this prestigious honor (cough) due to the fact that a recent hand-washing campaign in our state’s medical facilities “has shown a significant drop in the spread of infectious diseases within these institutions.”

Um, not to pour cold water on what is obviously a rare positive headline for the Palmetto State, but isn’t hand-washing in hospitals pretty much standard operating procedure?

Seriously, are there actually states (Mississippi?) where hospital staffers don’t wash their hands?

Anyway, three cheers for South Carolina … “Hip hip hooray! Hip hip hooray! Hip hip hooray!”

Or, “Hip Hop Hooray,” if you’re so inclined …

UPDATE: We’d like to point out that while our hospital employees may lead the nation in clean hands, our politicians clearly lead the nation in dirty thoughts.

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