Healthy hands, healthy facility. A provider does more than reduce influenza rates with a hand-sanitizing program that is implemented by residents.

摘要

EVEN BEFORE THE THREAT OF H1N1 in 2008, approximately 266,000 people were hospitalized each year due to influenza, while 36,000 die annually from this virulent disease. Many of those stricken were people who were frail or immune-compromised and living in situations where they were more easily exposed to viruses.A long term care facility is just such a place: Residents are in frequent contact with others, because they share rooms and dining areas. An additional concern is that long term care residents usually receive their personal care from nurses who are mothers and who are therefore in daily contact with children coming from very infectious situations- schools.