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Vitalacy is committed to reducing patient harm in healthcare through better hand hygiene and patient safety solutions. Bluetooth-enabled smart sensors and wearables help improve outcomes and Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades.

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How to Improve the Accuracy of Your Hand Hygiene Compliance Data

Hand Hygiene, Patient Safety, Technology /

Compliance with hand hygiene protocols has been linked to reduced healthcare-acquired infections (HAIs). For example, an academic medical center reduced the incidence of HAIs for two consecutive quarters after the center increased its hand hygiene compliance from 30 percent to more than 70 percent (Vitalacy, 2019). Being able to establish this link within your healthcare […]

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A Perfect Match: Safety Culture and Technology

Best Practices, Patient Safety, Regulations /

“First, do no harm” is a simple, often-quoted phrase adopted by healthcare organizations dedicated to patient safety. These organizations would do well to establish effective hand hygiene initiatives aided by automated technology as an important step toward creating safety cultures. Taking every precaution to prevent harm starts quite logically with hand hygiene, which has been

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How Patient Safety Can Turn Liability Reserves Into Hospital Margin

Best Practices, Patient Safety, Patient Satisfaction /

Patient Safety’s Impact on Hospital Margings A patient at risk for a fall attempted to walk to the bathroom on his own, after waiting a long time for a nurse to respond to a call light. He fell backwards, hit his head, and sustained a traumatic brain injury due to this patient safety lapse. Not

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What are the Benefits of Purposeful Rounding?

Hand Hygiene, Infectious Disease, Technology /

Hospital patients depend on their care team to make sure they get well – it’s that simple. Part of that healing process includes purposeful rounding – “a proactive, systematic, nurse-driven, evidence-based intervention that helps (us) anticipate and address patient needs,” according to “The Value of Purposeful Rounding,” an article in American Nurse Today, the official

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Improving Patient Safety: 5 Steps to Organizational Buy-In

Hand Hygiene Campaigns /

Every healthcare executive dealing with patient safety challenges must deal with the realities of organizational culture, the philosophy of stakeholders in the organization in regard to patient safety, and budget. Many find themselves facing a daunting task with command of too few resources to attack the well-known but poorly documented problem of healthcare-acquired infections and

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Prevention and Control of HAIs During Flu Season

Infectious Disease /

Flu season brings a set of challenges each year—challenges further amplified when an outbreak occurs in a healthcare setting. From increased morbidity and mortality to longer lengths of stay and higher care costs, healthcare-associated influenza can place a huge burden on patients and healthcare providers alike. With this in mind, prevention is the ultimate weapon

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Joint Commission’s New Hand Hygiene Standards: Key Compliance Tips

1 Comment / Laws & Industry Standards /

Key Tips for Joint Commission Hygiene Standards As of January 1, 2018, if a Joint Commission surveyor sees just one clinician fail to clean his or her hands while in the process of direct patient care, the hospital will be cited with a deficiency, resulting in a Requirement for Improvement under the Infection Prevention and

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Understanding C. diff and Its New Hand Hygiene Guidelines

Hand Hygiene, Infectious Disease /

C. difficile, Hospital-Acquired Infection #1 C. difficile infection (CDI) is among the most serious of nosocomial infections, affecting nearly half a million Americans each year. The leading cause of hospital-acquired diarrheal infection, C. difficile spreads via spores that are highly resistant to physical and biochemical cleaning agents. Approximately 75 percent of CDI cases are acquired

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