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US Hospitals Urged To Force
Hand Washing - Huh?

From Patricia A. Doyle DVM, PhD
9-11-9
 
Hello Jeff - It is pretty sad when hospitals have to ENFORCE hand-washing among employees. 
 
One would think that people who work in hospitals would already understand the need to wash hands. (Especially nurses and doctors) What are they learning in medical or nursing schools?) 
 
Patty
 
US Hospitals Urged To Strictly Enforce Hand-Washing
By Carolyn Lochhead - Chronicle Washington Bureau
San Francisco Chronicle
9-11-9
 
WASHINGTON -- The president of a leading medical standards organization announced a new program Thursday that is designed to improve health care safety practices, starting with a rigorous approach toward hand-washing by hospital staffers.
 
Hand-washing failures contribute to infections linked to health care that kill almost 100,000 Americans a year and cost U.S. hospitals $4 billion to $29 billion a year to combat, said Dr. Mark Chassin, who leads the Joint Commission, which sets standards and accredits hospitals and health care organizations.
 
Chassin's announcement came after Hearst Newspapers published the results of an investigation, "Dead by Mistake," which reported that 247 people die every day in the United States from infections contracted in hospitals.
 
The Joint Commission's new program, the Center for Transforming Health Care, is funded by hospitals and other large health care providers.
 
Eight leading hospitals and health systems, including Cedars-Sinai Health System in Los Angeles, have volunteered to address hand-washing failures as a critical patient safety problem, according to Chassin's announcement.
 
Hand-washing problems include soaps or alcohol-based hand rubs that are not convenient for caregivers to use and faulty data that lull facilities into thinking hand-washing is occurring more often than it is.
 
The hospitals using the center's measurement methods consistently found on average that caregivers washed their hands less than 50 percent of the time when they should, according to the center.
 
Solutions being tested include holding everyone accountable and responsible - doctors, nurses, food service staff, housekeepers, chaplains, technicians and therapists.
 
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/11/MNDF19L7VT.DTL
 
 
Patricia A. Doyle DVM, PhD Bus Admin, Tropical Agricultural Economics Univ of West Indies Please visit my "Emerging Diseases" message board at: http://www.emergingdisease.org/phpbb/index.php Also my new website: http://drpdoyle.tripod.com/ Zhan le Devlesa tai sastimasa Go with God and in Good Health 
 
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