Throughout the month of August, we will be focusing on the first of the 3 main goals Chris talked about last week: Improving Patient Outcomes. To help communicate the objectives of this goal, we broke it down into three subjects: Patient Progression Quality Patient Satisfaction This week, Kelly Ward, Emergency Department Director, explains the importance of … [Read more...]
Wash. Glove. Wash.
Good hand hygiene is the single most effective thing we can do to protect our patients’ safety, and I want to remind everyone to be vigilant about how and when you wash your hands. When we practice exceptional hand hygiene we are keeping the patient at the center of what we’re doing. Our hand hygiene secret shopper tells us that our number one observed failure is not washing … [Read more...]