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Healthcare worker rubbing sanitizer into their hands beside a wall-mounted dispenser labeled “KCL AM Quick-Care.”
February 21, 2013

Hand hygiene efforts helping to cut infection rates

Dramatic reductions in infection rates throughout Vanderbilt’s inpatient care units are strongly associated with gains in hand hygiene compliance, according to Chief Hospital Epidemiol-ogist Tom Talbot, M.D., MPH, associate professor of Preventive Medicine.

By Vanderbilt Health News
Circular blue-and-silver hygiene emblem showing hands under running water with the words “CLEAN HANDS SAVE LIVES.”
October 11, 2012

Day set to promote hand hygiene efforts

Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s hand hygiene committee will host its annual Hand Hygiene Awareness Day with hand hygiene tables set up outside the Flulapalooza tent on Wednesday, Oct. 17, and Thursday, Oct. 18.

By Nancy Humphrey