We are pleased to announce that Clean Hands – Safe Hands’ Founder and CEO, Dr. Chris Hermann, was named the winner of the Atlanta Business Chronicle’s “Healthcare Heroes” award, “Rising Star” category, on May...
Patient falls are a serious problem, affecting between 700,000 and 1 million patients per year in American hospitals.[1] One of the primary reasons patients fall out of bed is that they haven’t been visited by a nurse in a while and they attempt to...
ATLANTA, GA – May 15, 2019 – Clean Hands–Safe Hands announced today that its Founder and CEO, Chris Hermann, PhD, MD, appeared in a webinar that is now available on demand. The webinar, entitled “Technology and Culture: Critical Elements of a...
Do you know how often the clinicians in your hospital visit the patients under their care? Does the frequency of their visits change throughout their shift? Until recently, it has been impossible to know when specific clinicians were visiting a parti...
Do you know how often the clinicians in your hospital visit the patients under their care? Do individual nurses visit patients about the same number of times per shift? Does the day of the week matter? Or time of day? Until recently, it has been impo...
Healthcare organizations are struggling. The transition to value-based care is a financial challenge that has negatively impacted profits, and smaller hospitals are being acquired. Nurse/physician shortages and burnout are making it increasingly diff...
ATLANTA, GA – April 22, 2019 – Clean Hands–Safe Hands announced today that its Founder and CEO, Dr. Chris Hermann, was named to the Atlanta Business Chronicle’s “Healthcare Heroes” list. The Healthcare Heroes Awards recognizes superstars ...
The Floyd Health integrated system in Rome, Georgia, has leveraged health IT to improve hand hygiene and reduce healthcare-associated infections MARK HAGLAND APRIL 1, 2019 On a conceptual level, it’s the simplest thing in the world: in order t...
ATLANTA, GA – April 17, 2019 – Clean Hands – Safe Hands (CHSH) announced today that its Founder and CEO, Dr. Chris Hermann, will be featured in an Advisor Live® webinar hosted by Premier® in honor of World Hand Hygiene Day. The webinar, title...
Abstract While hand hygiene is widely considered to be the most important factor in preventing healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), hand hygiene compliance rates in hospitals still average around 40 percent. Improving hand hygiene has been a chal...
