Fierce Healthcare January 26, 2021
Care avoidance due to fear of exposure to COVID-19 poses a real and significant threat to hospital profitability—all while case counts continue to rise in the U.S. It has arguably never been more important to restore patient and staff confidence in the infection prevention measures put in place to keep everyone safe.
When COVID-19 hit, the infection prevention team at our 353-bed hospital and Level I trauma center assessed the emerging infection prevention needs related to the pandemic and identified a plan. For us, everything starts and ends with hand-washing. And, hand hygiene was cited, early on, by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and others as one of the single most important practices to reduce the spread of...