Published: June 08, 2010
Mercy Community Hospital Reaches 10,000 Handwashes and Reduces HAIs with Resurgent Automated Handwashing System
GOLDEN, Colo. - (BUSINESS WIRE) - Michelle Farber, RN, CIC, Mercy Hospital's senior infection prevention
officer, has notified Resurgent Health and Medical that they have
surpassed the 10,000 handwashing milestone. As part of a new approach to
prevent Hospital Acquired Infections (HAI), Mercy's ICU installed the
Resurgent Health and Medical handwashing system in December 2009.
With a staff of 78, the handwashing tracking clocked the 10,000
handwashes mark in May 2010, in a mere six months of operation. More
significantly, there has been significant reduction in HAI's, and
Mercy's Clinical Action Team (CAT) has earned recognition from the
Minnesota Hospital Association and the American Association of Critical
Care Nurses.
"To keep improving adherence to hand hygiene and contact precautions,
Mercy's latest efforts to prevent infection included placing automatic
handwashing systems in the ICU," said Farber. "Positive feedback created
a culture that believed targeting zero infections was possible."
Resurgent is proud to have contributed to the reduction of HAI's at
Mercy and plans to award certificates of recognition to all 78 staff
members.
About Resurgent
Resurgent Health & Medical manufactures and distributes CleanTech
automated handwashing systems and CleanTracker RFID Compliance
Monitoring Software. CleanTech performs a fully-automated wash, sanitize
and rinse cycle, eliminating up to 99.98% of pathogens, while using 75%
less water and soap than manual handwashing. Upgraded with CleanTracker
RFID compliance monitoring, the CleanTech System automatically tracks
and records handwashing for report generation.
Resurgent Health & Medical will attend the APIC 2010 Conference in New
Orleans, July 11-14, Booth # 1439, an opportunity to demo CleanTech's
automated handwashing systems. For more information on Resurgent Health
and Medical and CleanTech's automated handwashing systems visit www.resurgenthealth.com.
About Mercy Hospital
Mercy
Hospital is a 271-bed hospital that serves the northwestern
Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area. Mercy is part of Allina
Hospitals & Clinics, a not-for-profit health care system of
hospitals, clinics and other patient care services that provides care to
communities throughout Minnesota and western Wisconsin.
Resurgent Health and Medical
Michele Colbert, 800-932-7707
VP
Sales and Marketing
mcolbert@meritech.com
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