The ASC Quality Collaboration offers a free, downloadable sample hand hygiene policy and procedure. Under the draft policy, “all members of the healthcare team will comply with current CDC hand ...

In the realm of frontline healthcare, where the well-being of both patients and healthcare workers hangs in the balance, there is a heightened vulnerability of healthcare workers (HCWs) to ...

Hygiene practices have come a long way since the CDC first published national hygiene guidelines in the 1980s. With so much to keep track of, a nurse leader summarized some of the latest practice ...

New data from Hill-Rom (NYSE: HRC) shows its hand-hygiene compliance system dramatically increases hand washing among hospital staff using the system. Analysis of more than 20 million instances of ...

Hand hygiene remains a cornerstone of infection prevention in healthcare settings, vital for curtailing the transmission of multidrug‐resistant organisms and reducing the incidence of ...

Hand hygiene is one of the most effective, affordable and universal tools we have to prevent the transmission of infections and provide high-quality, clean and safe medical care. While medical gloves ...

A hand hygiene video from Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center won the sixth annual Film Festival at the 43rd Annual Conference of the Association for Professionals in ...

Holy Name Medical Center is deploying AI-powered hand hygiene stations in departments that treat the hospital’s most vulnerable patients. Developed by health care technology company Soapy USA Inc., ...

— -- For doctors and nurses, hand hygiene is supposed to be as intuitive as breathing. But is this behavior really second-nature, or do health care workers need supervision to keep their hand ...

Handwashing is one of the simplest yet most powerful health practices known to humankind. This basic act, often taken for granted, plays a critical role in preventing the spread of diseases and ...