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The Top 5 Real (and Surprising) Reasons Clinicians Don’t Clean Their Hands
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...
How the New Joint Commission Hand Hygiene Standards Could Impact Your Hospital
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...
Modern Healthcare: Joint Commission Cracks Down On Hand Hygiene
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...
Joint Commission AND Leapfrog Get Serious About Hand Hygiene
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,...
Top 5 Hand Hygiene Trends for the New Year
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 ...
The Joint Commission Just Drew a Line in the Sand on Hand Hygiene
The Joint Commission Perspectives newsletter just announced a major overhaul to their hand hygiene standards. If you haven’t seen it, you need to read it now. The Joint Commission frequently gets a bad rap, but they got this one right, and in doing...
Workflow Process Enhancement (Phase 5 of our Hand Hygiene Acceleration Pathway)
You can’t just install technology into a complex organization and expect it to significantly change people’s behavior. In order to enable sustainable change, the technology needs to be paired with a process that drives a culture of positive, cont...
Four-Year-Olds Get It…So Why Is It So Hard To Do?
Recently, I was working remotely from a coffee shop. I had my work laptop, notepad and hot beverage at hand and was cranking away. Then I noticed a young family sitting nearby. I couldn’t help but notice, because their four-year-old daughter was ch...
A Personal Best Approach (Phase 4 of our Hand Hygiene Acceleration Pathway)
It takes more than just technology to increase hand hygiene performance and reduce HAIs. The technology needs to be paired with a process that leads to culture change and sustainable results. We start creating a positive culture in phase 3, which inc...
Chris Hermann Honored at “40 Under 40” Gala
Last evening, Dr. Chris Hermann and 39 other honorees were celebrated at the Atlanta Business Chronicle’s 2017 “40 Under 40” awards event at The Foundry at Puritan Mill in Atlanta. With over 560 people nominated, only 7% of nominees...