McCausland Hospital

"Providers of Care with Compassion & Concern"

 
Hand Hygiene

The single most common way of transferring health care-associated infections is on the hands of health care providers.  Health care providers move from patient to patient and room to room while providing care and working in the patient care environment.  this movement provides many opportunities for the transmission of organisms on hands that can cause infections.

Ontario hospitals now report hand hygiene compliance rates.  Hospitals will post on their web sites, on an annual basis, compliance rates for:

1. hand hygiene before initial contact with the patient/patient's environment for health care providers
2. hand hygiene after contact with the patient/patient's environment for all health care provider

Hospitals will also report their data to the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care.  The ministry will post this information on its public website.