The ASC Quality Collaboration is a nonprofit organization of industry leaders devoted to advancing ASC quality through public reporting and measurement. “Hand Hygiene: What CMS Surveyors Are Looking ...

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement, in collaboration with the CDC, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology and the Society of Healthcare Epidemiology of America, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Hand hygiene is described by many health care workers as the single most important tool in preventing the spread ...

Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of articles in which we will bring in an expert to address some of the misinformation we have read in various social ...

In mid-February, the University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville launched a pilot program to test out a new hand hygiene compliance system. Physicians, nurses, therapists and environmental ...

Hospital-acquired infections affect approximately 440,000 patients each year in the U.S., costing roughly $10 billion a year. Largely preventable, healthcare organizations across the country have long ...

A reoccurring theme that has been present during the COVID-19 pandemic is hand-washing. However, we shouldn’t just be washing our hands – we should be practicing proper hand hygiene by scrubbing for ...

The majority of germs that cause serious infections in humans are transmitted by people’s actions. One of the effective means to prevent these infections is by practicing good hand hygiene. Several ...

University of Michigan Health and Newark Beth Israel Medical Center have increased hand hygiene compliance significantly. The results of two technology-based hand hygiene improvement initiatives were ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Today on Hand Hygiene Day, observed each year on May 5, WHO is promoting its annual campaign, “Save Lives: Clean ...