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Facility finds new ways to improve hand hygiene ­success rates

Of all the challenges U.S. hospitals face, few are as unifying as hand hygiene-extremely important and, as many facilities struggle with compliance, extremely ­difficult to get right.

At Alamance Regional Medical Center (ARMC) in Burlington, NC, a reexamination of how hand hygiene compliance was measured has led to an improved and better overall process for supporting good hand hygiene practices.

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