2009-05-07
10:08:45
Riverside Health Care Facilities is trying to improve its compliance level of provincial hand hygiene standards in local hospitals.
Ministry of Health statistics show the number of health care workers in Rainy River, Emo and Fort Frances who did comply with the standard was much lower than the provincial average.
Infection Control Practitioner Jodi Jewell says they're are working to improve those numbers.
"We're rolling out education pertaining to the hand hygiene point of care, being that washing your hands at the patient environment before any aseptic practices," says Jewell. "We're also putting hand sanitizers at the bedside in each hospital."
Jewell says staff are washing their hands before and after making contact with patients, but the Ministry criteria calls for them to use the hand sanitizers.
