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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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Patients As Healthcare Consumers—And What That Means For Hand Hygiene

It’s almost impossible to discuss the changing healthcare landscape without acknowledging the shift into consumerism. Today, Americans don’t just shop for clothing, cars, food, or homes. They shop around for their healthcare. And as cases of hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) continue to make the news, they might just start wondering about hospital safety ratings. It’s yet …

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“Employees Must Wash Hands”: How Non-Healthcare Industries Tackle Hand Hygiene

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 Well Does Hand Sanitizer Work? Myths And Facts In The Hand Sanitizer Vs. Soap Debate

To Help Stop Coronavirus, Wash Your Hands Soap, water and hand sanitizer all play important roles in hand hygiene, which has been identified as a primary defense against the spread of the coronavirus. This Vitalacy blog article clarifies the facts about hand sanitizer and soap and their roles in proper hand hygiene. Does hand sanitizer …

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How Did Handwashing In Healthcare Become So Important?

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 Handle Public Health Threats

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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The Art Of Hand Hygiene: 5 Handwashing Signs That Got Attention at Hospitals

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 compliance rates at US hospitals …

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Making The 2017 Joint Commission Goals A Reality At Your Hospital

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 million …

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Healthcare Lawsuits And Infection Control: An Expensive Collision

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 hand hygiene, they tend to hit roadblocks. …

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