Jane Kirk MSN, RN, CIC, clinical specialist, advised GOJO Industries, a leading global producer and marketer of skin health and hygiene solutions for away-from-home settings, about the basics of good ...

Despite being a pillar of preventing the spread of germs, hand hygiene compliance rates remain dismal in many healthcare settings. That said, research on how to boost compliance and establish best ...

A systematic review published in April this year, which pooled the results of 28 studies worldwide, identified four main ...

National Handwashing Day may have been last week, but as KENS 5's Jeremy Baker reports in today's Healthy SA, you need to practice good hand hygiene year-round to avoid getting illnesses. It's kind of ...

Way back in the early, whirlwind days of the pandemic, surfaces were the thing to worry about. The prevailing scientific wisdom was that the coronavirus spread mainly via large droplets, which fell ...

A 2003 video of Nelson Mandela teaching a child how to properly wash his hands serves as a good reminder in a world crippled by the coronavirus pandemic. The public service announcement, which was ...

Here are five proven strategies for increasing hand hygiene compliance at your ASC. 1. Place hand sanitizers throughout the facility. Installing hand sanitizers throughout an ASC gives the facility an ...

Hamilton Medical Center announces their first baby of the year for 2026. Alex Yovani Goux Lopez was born at 12:49 a.m. on New Year's Day and weighed six pounds, 15 ounces. His parents are ... more ...

When it comes to improving and sustaining hand hygiene compliance rates, peer pressure may be more effective than the promise of a cash bonus, according to a study in a California hospital described ...