Cleanzine: your weekly cleaning and hygiene industry newsletter 2nd May 2024 Issue no. 1112
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Your hand hygiene compliance challenges, solved
Unlike some other electronic hand hygiene solutions, BioVigil provides a gentle reminder sequence on a user-worn badge to wash your hands.
The combination of these reminders, plus the awareness feature of a green, yellow, and red light, have proven to significantly increase hand hygiene compliance and inspired confidence amongst patients in healthcare environments.
Tests have shown that the system:
• Sustains 97% hand hygiene compliance
• Reduces Healthcare Acquired Infections by up to 83%
• Increases patient satisfaction from 35th to 97th percentile
• Ensures compliance with new US Joint Commission requirements
• Reduces staff absenteeism by 18%
“We have a no tolerance policy and this is a patient safety initiative,” says a spokesperson for a community hospital in which the system is used. “If they do not wear their badge, they are not allowed to work in the patient care areas.”
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