Handwashing transparency valued by Millennials Those foodservice operators who invested in handwash monitoring because of Norovirus concerns now add another, even more topical and contagious virus to their hit-list, Coronavirus. While these pathogens have many technical differences the two viruses share the property of living on hands and surfaces for a day or more. Coronavirus […]
Coronavirus: The Good News
Our Top 10 handwashing behaviors to beat COVID-19 … and next year’s mutationsEclipsed by Coronavirus media exaggerations and unforgivable politicalization, are the benefits of the public’s emerging better behaviors regarding hand cleanliness. The legacy of the Coronavirus outbreak in the USA is likely to be that it saved more lives than those lost to COVID-19. […]
Pre-Coronavirus Handwashing Investments Pay Off
Handwashing transparency valued by Millennials Those foodservice operators who invested in handwash monitoring because of Norovirus concerns now add another, even more topical and contagious virus to their hit-list, Coronavirus. While these pathogens have many technical differences the two viruses share the property of living on hands and surfaces for a day or more. Coronavirus […]
Foodservice’s Perennial Handwashing Question Answered by Healthcare Research
Data unleashes sustainable solutions Healthcare handwashing research rarely reaches the ranks of restaurant’s food safety and risk management professionals. A recent review of the impact of Electronic Handwash Monitoring in healthcare has answered the question that has held back serious evaluations by the restaurant industry: Handwashing data may increase policy compliance but does it reduce […]
International Clean Hands Week
Please join this annual campaign, sponsored by the CDC facilitated Clean Hands Coalition. Raise awareness of the dangers of poor hand hygiene. Check out a variety of ideas to improve the away-from-home wellness factor in everyone’s life. Clean hands are the cure to the spread of colds, the flu, and those illnesses acquired in our […]
Myth #3: Tight budgets eliminate investment in new handwash monitoring technology.
Infection Budgeting Add facts to ignite a patient priority for electronic handwash monitoring Tight budgets are perhaps the easiest way to avoid change and hide behind a culture of the status quo. Facing the budget process with evidence is a game-changer. Facts driven by electronic handwashing monitoring can convert the budget hawks into allies for […]
Myth #2: Electronic monitoring raises handwashing compliance but doesn’t lower HAIs.
Infection Evidence Confirms Value Of Frequent Caregiver Handwashing Electronic monitoring drives handwashing up and HAIs down Recent caregiver research provides the previously missing evidence between increased handwashing and decreased patient infections. These research studies are important tools in recruiting support for this patient protecting investment in electronic monitoring of handwashing policy compliance.
Myth #1: 479,000 Annual HAI Deaths Will Persist As Our Cultural Norm
Complacency paralyzes progress in hospitals & nursing homes The combined annual death rate from Healthcare Acquired Infections, Acute Care and Long-Term Care (LTC) add up to 479,000. This disaster, a daily disaster, illustrates the Normalcy Bias where improbability blocks reality and reason. Breaking this Normalcy Bias will save many lives, likely tens of thousands per […]
Pathogen Pathway Pictorials for Healthcare C-Suites
Handwashing becomes the backstop for the surface contamination in nursing homes Dr. Kelly Reynolds, University of Arizona researcher, shares her experience in long-term care where the homelike environment challenges staff to keep pace with surface cleanliness standards. She finds that busy C-Suite decision-makers appreciate converting complicated research studies into pictures. The referenced nursing home research […]
The Engaged Hand Washer: Patient Protector #1
APIC 2019 Handwashing Preview Handwashing remains a process basically out of control in healthcare. There are no clear standards, thus no variance reports and no objective data to reward success or discipline nonperformance. Unwashed hands endanger brands and are a major contributing factor to the 479,000 annual deaths attributed to infections acquired in hospitals and […]
