In order to keep patients – and healthcare workers – safe, the best practice is for clinicians to clean their hands every time they enter or exit a patient’s room, as well as during the My 5 Moments recommended by the World Health Organization....
If you live in the United States, what’s most likely to kill you? Heart disease Cancer Stroke Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs)[1] So, HAIs are the 4th leading cause of death in the U.S. As well as the #1 preventable cause of death. Another w...
A recent study showed that healthcare-associated infections (HAI) have decreased by 16% in the United States, comparing 2015 to 2011[1]. In 2011, 11,282 patients in 183 hospitals were surveyed, and 4.0% of them had an HAI. In 2015, 12,299 patients in...
ATLANTA, GA – November 30, 2018 – Clean Hands – Safe Hands (CHSH) announced today that it has launched quarterly Customer Awards to recognize its hospital customers with the highest performance in terms of hand hygiene or healthcare-associated ...
We’re in the last few days of November, which is C. diff Awareness Month, and NPR has come out with a report that more cases of C. diff are arising from the community rather than from hospitals. (Here’s the NPR article.) Clostridium difficile, wh...
Has your hospital been impacted by The Joint Commission’s new 2018 standards for hand hygiene yet? As you probably know, the new standards represent a major change in how your organization is evaluated. With the old standards, you just had to have ...
The situation in New Jersey is tragic. An adenovirus outbreak at a rehab facility has killed ten children and sickened 30 others[1] to date. Unfortunately, suffering and death from healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) is not uncommon. In fact, the...
We’ve been frequent critics of using Direct Observation to measure and impact hand hygiene performance (more here). Still, we hear from some hospitals who report that they can’t invest in an electronic hand hygiene reminder system this year…so ...
In the fictional town of “Lake Wobegon” from A Prairie Home Companion, “all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.” All joking aside, of course it’s impossible for “all” (or even “m...
If you take an honest look at hand hygiene literature, it’s widely reported that hand hygiene in the US remains well below 50%. That said, when you speak with most hospital leaders, you’ll be hard pressed to find anyone who will acknowledge that ...
