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 ...

In mid-February, the University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville launched a pilot program to test out a new hand hygiene compliance system. Physicians, nurses, therapists and environmental ...

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 ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends a 30 second application of a six-step hand washing and hand rub regimen that could keep infections away. New research titled, 'Simplifying the WHO ...

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 ...

A World Health Organization (WHO) hand hygiene program increased hand hygiene compliance in healthcare workers from 51.0% to 67.2%, according to the results of a quasi-experiment conducted at 6 pilot ...

Hand hygiene is one of the most effective, affordable and universal tools we have to prevent the transmission of infections and provide high-quality, clean and safe medical care. While medical gloves ...