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New Data Reveals Hospitals Using Clean Hands – Safe Hands Reduce Healthcare-Associated Infections by Over 60 Percent
Ten consecutive hospital installations saw HAIs decline by between 45% and 81% in six months, saving nearly 40 Lives and over $9.5 million annually Atlanta, GA, January 30, 2019 – Clean Hands–Safe Hands today released data showing a decrease in h...
Impact of a Voice on HAIs
We’ve already talked about how our Real-Time Voice Reminder™ has a direct impact on hand hygiene, doubling it when it’s turned on. But the real question is, how does the voice reminder impact healthcare-associated infections (HAIs)? Just as...
Impact of a Voice on Hand Hygiene
When a busy healthcare provider forgets to clean their hands, a human voice does the best job of reminding them to do so. Want evidence? We’ve got it. The single biggest driver of hand hygiene performance in our system is the Real-Time Voice Remind...
Flu Season Means Better Hand Hygiene
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....
HAIs Are The 4th Leading Cause of Death
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...
HAIs Are Down 16%
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...
C. diff is Becoming More Common…Everywhere
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...
The Joint Commission: Will You Get a Hand Slap or a High Five?
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 ...
Poor Hand Hygiene Contributed to 10 Children’s Deaths
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...
3 Steps to Improve Direct Observation
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 ...