Vitalacy, Inc.

February 2022

A healthcare worker wearing a wristband approaches an automated hand sanitizer dispenser next to a digital display showing hand hygiene compliance metrics.

Financial Case for Automated Hygiene: Part 3 – Penalties & Burnout Costs

Burnout Costs and Penalties in Hygiene Cases The first two parts of this series about how to make a financial case for automated, or electronic, hand hygiene compliance systems covered the costs of healthcare-acquired infections (Nour-Omid, July 26, 2021) and the costs of direct observation of care providers’ compliance (Nour-Omid, Aug. 16, 2021). This article […]

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Hospital COVID Cases Signal the Need for Stronger IPC Culture

Protecting patients and workers inside of a hospital from the spread of infectious pathogens requires testing, personal protective equipment (PPE) and data – information about care providers’ compliance with infection prevention and control (IPC) procedures. In the case of COVID, it also requires vaccination. All of these tools are needed for hospitals to create and

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