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How Non-Healthcare Sectors Approach Hand Hygiene Standards

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You’ve heard the disheartening statistic: The hand hygiene compliance rate at US hospitals hovers around 40%. Not surprisingly, hospital-acquired infections plague some 650,000 American patients annually. Unfortunately, infections spread by poor hand hygiene aren’t exclusive to healthcare. Unclean hands—and the resulting infections—are a problem in many different industries. Here’s how 3 of the biggest industry […]

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How Did Handwashing In Healthcare Become So Important?

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Handwashing in healthcare has always been important, and that importance is becoming more recognized due to the urgent need to curtail the spread of the coronavirus. Let’s take a look at where we are today and how we got here over years of scientific discoveries and breakthroughs. Where We Are Today The relationship between clean

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“From Swine Flu to Ebola: How Hospitals Manage Health Threats

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Public health threats bring public attention to hospital-acquired infections. Here is how several hospitals handled the Ebola and swine flu threats: Infection prevention measures in hospitals are always critical. However, they rarely get the attention they deserve, except when a public health threat is suddenly in the news, like ebola or swine flu. With an

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5 Hospital Handwashing Signs That Caught Attention

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Hospital Handwashing: 5 Key Signs Here’s how hospitals across the country are encouraging hand hygiene with handwashing signs: It’s probably not a stretch to say that raising hand hygiene compliance rates to 100% is the Holy Grail of every infection control director at every hospital in the United States. Unfortunately, Becker’s Hospital Review reports that

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Making 2017 Joint Commission Goals a Reality in Your Hospital

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The Joint Commission 2017 goals provide guidelines for hospital hand hygiene. Here’s how to make these goals a reality at your hospital:    It’s a well-known fact in the world of infection control and prevention: hand hygiene is the most important way to prevent hospital-acquired infections. Unfortunately, many hospitals fall short, contributing to some 2

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Healthcare Lawsuits And Infection Control: An Expensive Collision

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Infection Control’s Role in Avoiding Lawsuits Read about 6 serious healthcare lawsuits involving infection control failures in U.S. hospitals:   It won’t come as any surprise to infection control directors that the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimates 1 in 25 hospital patients acquires an infection. Still, when hospitals consider launching major new campaigns around

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