Funding Enhanced Handwashing
The funding step for enhanced hand hygiene proposals fill the waste baskets and shredding machines of USA nursing homes. Everyone agrees on the need, no one pulls out the checkbook.
Catriona O’Connor, the Proprietor and Director of Care for a nursing home in Ireland has an answer that deserves a look. She simply ranks all her care programs on the basis of risk and takes the money from less risky elements. Her’s is a person-centered P&L.