From environmental services professional to a facility manager or engineer, everyone can contribute to proper hand-washing rates, according to an article on the Health Facilities Management website.
According to the HFM salary survey, a quarter of the respondents have financial incentives linked to their facility’s rate of hospital-acquired infections.
Many hospitals have launched campaigns to encourage hand hygiene. In a one-day event called the Big Wash, University of Chicago Medicine used 2,581 sensors to track hand hygiene across its three-hospital campus.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center had success with a clean hands initiative launched in 2009. The initiative included installing additional hand sanitizer dispensers and an education effort.
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