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Vitalacy Team
- Jun 29
- 5 min
WHO Report Reveals IPC Programs Emphasizing Hand Hygiene Can Reduce HAIs by 70%
World Health Organization shows that good hand hygiene and other cost-effective infection prevention and control (IPC) practices can prevent
Vitalacy Team
- Apr 20, 2020
- 10 min
Understanding Key Parameters That Drive Decision Making for COVID-19
Without answers to these questions, it is very likely our decision would be faulty and costly both in lives and dollars.
Vitalacy Team
- Sep 3, 2019
- 3 min
How to Reduce Burnout and Medical Errors by Engaging Healthcare Workers in Patient Safety
Safety cultures encourage the reporting of adverse events and unsafe conditions. A just and trusting culture can reduce nurse burnout.
Vitalacy Team
- Aug 27, 2019
- 3 min
Preventing Fatal Blood Transfusions: Why Frequent Patient Monitoring Saves Lives
Hospitals must prevent "never events", but most don’t have the technology to track frequency or quality of patient monitoring.
Vitalacy Team
- Aug 21, 2019
- 4 min
How to Improve the Accuracy of Your Hand Hygiene Compliance Data
By increasing the number of observations, hospitals can achieve a truer measure of compliance and quantitatively reduce HAIs.
Vitalacy Team
- Aug 13, 2019
- 4 min
A Perfect Match: Safety Culture and Technology
Safety cultures should have five elements: informed culture, reporting culture, learning culture, just culture and flexible culture.
Vitalacy Team
- Jan 22, 2019
- 4 min
National Patient Safety Goals: Accurate Patient Identification
By CS Copeland, PhD “Do-the-2. Verify two patient identifiers — every patient, every time." This pithy advice from the University of...
Vitalacy Team
- Dec 19, 2018
- 4 min
The Joint Commission’s National Patient Safety Goals for Improving Caregiver Communication
By Lauretta Ihonor The Joint Commission’s annual National Patient Safety Goals articulate clear goals around which organizations can...
Vitalacy Team
- Feb 21, 2018
- 4 min
What Does the New Joint Commission Mandate Mean for Hospital Hygiene?
For more than a decade, the Joint Commission has stressed good hand hygiene as a condition of accreditation at its 21,000 associated healthc
Vitalacy Team
- Apr 10, 2017
- 5 min
Making The 2017 Joint Commission Goals A Reality At Your Hospital
The Joint Commission 2017 goals provide guidelines for hospital hand hygiene. Here’s how to make these goals a reality at your hospital: