1. Wet hands with water.2. Apply soap and rub hands together.3. Rinse hands with waterThat’s all there is to hand hygiene, right? Well, in healthcare settings, there’s a little more to it than that.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rubbing hands with ethanol-based sanitizers should provide a formidable defense against infection from flu viruses, which can thrive and spread in saliva and mucus. But new findings challenge that ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, roughly one in 25 patients will contract a healthcare-associated infection. Physicians and healthcare workers, however, have the ability to ...

BioVigil’s electronic badge in use. At Parker Health Group facilities, they knew full well what just about everyone knows in long-term care: You better have your infection control protocols up to par ...