It’s a tie!

Staff and physicians on both 3 South and 3 North received an 82% compliance rate for hand hygiene in March. Well done everyone! The overall rate at Richmond Hospital was 72%.

Did you know?

• 1/3 of health care acquired infections are preventable by appropriate hand hygiene.
• every healthcare-acquired infection adds $10,000 to $24,000 in treatment cost per patient

Hand hygiene audit rates are based on the percentage of staff who practiced hand hygiene before and after patient care, as seen by hand hygiene auditors. For more information on hand hygiene, including hand hygiene audits, please check out our page on VCH Connect.

Watch for a new bi-weekly feature in the VCH news called “Caught Clean Handed” which will highlight staff “caught in the act” of cleaning their hands.