Purell ES Everywhere Offers Versatile Hand Sanitizing Option
GOJO, the inventor of Purell® Advanced Hand Sanitizer and the leading global producer and marketer of skin health and hygiene solutions for away-from-home settings, has introduced its latest innovation, the Purell ES™ Everywhere System.
Ebola: A Crash Course in Reliability
Our responses to the news that Ebola had been diagnosed in the United States for the first time reveal gaps in our understanding of how to protect others and ourselves from Ebola and other infectious diseases.
PDI Prevantics Skin Antiseptics Proven to Help Facilities Reduce CLABSI Rates, Costs
PDI, maker of infection prevention products and solutions, continues to reinforce the importance of a complete infection prevention program for skin antisepsis.
Baptist Health Becomes World’s First Health System to Adopt Uniforms with Fluid-Repelling, Antimicrobial Textile Technology
Baptist Health will become the first health system to widely adopt specialized staff garments featuring Vestex® textile technology, which has been demonstrated to repel fluids and minimize the risk of transmission of organisms.
Disinfection Robot Improves Patient Safety and Prevents Infection
Palos Community Hospital has added TRU-D SmartUVC™ to its patient safety and infection control arsenal and will be using the UV disinfection robot in patient rooms as well as surgical suites to eliminate harmful pathogens after traditional cleaning routines are carried out.
Record Hand Hygiene Observations More Efficiently
Failure to perform proper hand hygiene is one of the leading preventable causes of healthcare-associated infections. iScrub is an iPhone/iPod Touch application from The Computational Epidemiology Group at the University of Iowa.
Partnership Increases Hand Hygiene Compliance
A new partnership between TeleTracking Technologies; Hill-Rom Company; and GOJO, makers of Purell hand sanitizer, will allow hospitals to use TeleTracking’s Real-Time Locating System (RTLS) to track, measure, and report hand hygiene compliance.
Inappropriate Antibiotic Use in Hospitals Putting Patients At Risk
As antibiotic use in hospitals becomes more frequent, the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) urges hospitals and healthcare systems to step up efforts to protect patients by improving antibiotic-prescribing practices.
Infection Prevention
Recent features, columns and news articles on infection prevention from Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare: Industry News and Products 3M Makes Call to Action to Reduce Surgical Site Infections JCI, SHEA Release “Best Practices in Infection Prevention and Control: An International Perspective, Second Edition” Pharmacy OneSource Releases New Features for Sentri7 Patient Safety & Quality … Continued
APIC Launches “Infection Prevention and You” Campaign
To help patients, families, and healthcare professionals understand their role in preventing infections, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) has announced a new multiyear education and awareness effort.