A national watchdog group recently scored some southwestern Illinois hospitals below average for safety metrics, including infections, communication and hand washing. The Leapfrog Group is a nonprofit ...

Hand-washing adherence is on the up-and-up as more hospitals are holding their leadership accountable for hand hygiene, patient safety watchdog The Leapfrog Group reports. Since it began collecting ...

As she walks with her mother into the front lobby of Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center, a 3-year-old girl reaches above her head to squeeze some hand sanitizer into her hand. The kiosk ...

(HealthDay News) — Health workers in hospitals wash their hands less often as they near the end of their shift, and this lapse – likely due to mental fatigue – could contribute to hundreds of ...

CHICAGO HOSPITAL STUDIES HAND HYGIENE COMPLIANCE: Hand hygiene among University of Chicago Medical Center workers improved early in the pandemic before dropping to pre-COVID levels after just four ...

The leader of Leapfrog, as well as the head of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, discussed current hand hygiene protocols and compliance, and why hospitals may ...

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 ...

House budget writers put $2 million in their proposed state budget to boost hand washing among healthcare workers in North Carolina hospitals. The project would fund hand hygiene dispensers in patient ...

RICHMOND HEIGHTS, Mo. — Hospitals have fretted for years over how to make sure doctors, nurses and staff keep their hands clean, but with only limited success. Now, some are turning to technology — ...

Kontakt.io is offering its hand hygiene solution with rewards offered for compliance so that healthcare workers treat handwashing similar to exercising with fitness trackers. Several hospitals are ...

Hand-washing, patient falls and injuries and collapsed lungs were cited as areas of concern for metro-east area hospitals this autumn, according to a watchdog report released Nov. 16. The Leapfrog ...