By any measure, this year’s flu season is a bad one. It’s on track to put over 700,000 Americans in the hospital and cause over 55,000 deaths, per the CDC. The percentage of people seeing their doctor for influenza-like illnesses hit 7.7%, the hi...
A few weeks ago, we published The Top 5 Real (and Surprising) Reasons Clinicians Don’t Clean Their Hands. With The Joint Commission’s new, stringent hand hygiene standards, this is more critical than it’s ever been. Today, we’d like to outlin...
February 3, 2018, by Dr. Chris Hermann, Founder and CEO, Clean Hands – Safe Hands In case you missed it, the Joint Commission recently made a drastic change to its hand hygiene standards. Previously, hospitals were simply required to impl...
Did you know that 5% of your clinicians are causing between 25% and 40% of your hand hygiene problem? We analyzed over 60 million hand hygiene data points from hospitals all over the country. Starting out, the bottom 5% of clinicians make up 25% of a...
. Will your hospital be ready the next time a Joint Commission surveyor pays a visit? Here are four ways to know you’re prepared to meet the new standards. Hand hygiene performance rates among all clinician groups and all shifts are consistently hi...
Hand hygiene continues to be a challenge for nearly all healthcare organizations. On the surface, it seems like a pretty simple concept, but once you really understand the complexity and variability of the clinical reality, it quickly becomes massive...
If a Joint Commission surveyor now sees one clinician fail to clean their hands one time, the hospital will be cited. Download our whitepaper to find out how you can increase hand hygiene performance and meet the new standard. >>>Download th...
Contact: Maria Castellucci January 3, 2018 – The Joint Commission will now issue a citation to healthcare organizations if during on-site visits surveyors witness an employee fail to follow correct hand hygiene guidelines. The change, which went in...
Everyone has talked about the importance of hand hygiene for years, and two major organizations are now getting serious. In case you missed it, starting this week, if a Joint Commission surveyor sees one individual fail to clean their hands one time,...
Even a seemingly straightforward industry such as hand hygiene is surprisingly nuanced. As 2017 comes to a close, we’d like to talk about the developments we’re noticing as we ease into 2018. Here are the top 5 trends specific to electronic hand ...
