Author name: Vitalacy Team

Sepsis Awareness Month, is, at its heart, about the idea that awareness changes outcomes. Fifteen years in, that premise has held up. CDC’s most recent National Healthcare Safety Network survey, covering more than 5,400 hospitals, found improvement across most hospital sepsis program priorities compared with the year before. That’s worth celebrating. When hospitals strengthen their […]

On August 16, Geisinger notified the public that a visitor with high suspicion of measles had been on the Geisinger Medical Center campus in Danville, Pennsylvania, from 1 p.m. on August 12 until 9 p.m. on August 13. Thirty-two hours, across five areas: the emergency department waiting room, the pediatric emergency department, the second floor

Despite Joint Commission pressure, for most hospitals, measuring hand hygiene compliance hasn’t meaningfully changed in decades. A clinician walks about a unit, watches a handful of care moments, marks a form, and enters the data into a spreadsheet. That number — often somewhere north of 90% — gets reported to the quality committee, the board,

Electronic hand hygiene monitoring has matured significantly, but hesitation around adopting it persists. Some concerns are legitimate. Others are based on experiences with older technology, secondhand accounts, or assumptions that have not kept pace with how the category has evolved. In either case, acting on outdated information has a real cost, and in infection prevention,