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Clean Hands May Have Saved My Son’s Life

Describe what the image is intended to communicate—not what it looks like

As both a mom and preschool teacher, I have said “wash your hands” more times than I can imagine. Before my newborn son died in a hospital, I never imagined I needed to say it to a doctor. But if all healthcare personnel always used proper hand hygiene in my son’s care, sepsis may not Read More >

May 5, 2022 by Mary Ellen Mannix4 Comments

Patient Stories and Patient Safety

Patient Safety Representatives Unite to Implement Global Patient Safety Action Plan in the United States

Armando Nahum is a founding member of Patients for Patient Safety U.S. as well as co-founder and president of Safe Care Campaign, an organization dedicated to infection prevention.

Preventable harm in the healthcare system is an urgent public health challenge, internationally and in the United States. Globally, more people die now from medical errors or other breakdowns in the quality and safety of healthcare services than from lack of access to them. (1) Researchers estimate that medication errors, preventable infections, venous thromboembolism, falls, Read More >

October 7, 2021 by Armando Nahum, Patients for Patient Safety U.S., Founding Member2 Comments

Healthcare-associated infections, Patient Stories and Patient Safety

Action Plan, Implementation, Infection Control and Prevention, patient safety

A Back to Basics Approach to Prevent Infection

The Rory Staunton Foundation was established by Ciaran and Orlaith Staunton following the preventable death of their 12-year-old son, Rory, from sepsis in 2012.

Guest Author: Orlaith Staunton Co-Founder END SEPSIS, the Legacy of Rory Staunton A Back to Basics Approach to Prevent Infection It was hard to see it happen. We were watching a friend’s basketball game when the young boy fell down and began to bleed from a cut on his arm. The referee sent him out of Read More >

May 2, 2018 by CDC's Safe Healthcare Blog9 Comments

Healthcare-associated infections, Patient Stories and Patient Safety

Sepsis

What You Should Know about Hand Hygiene

Author: L. Clifford McDonald Associate Director for Science, CDC Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion The science is clear: clean hands can protect patients and healthcare providers from dangerous and deadly infections. Yet, studies show that on average, healthcare providers clean their hands less than half of the times they should.1 CDC’s Division of Healthcare Quality Read More >

May 17, 2016 by CDC's Safe Healthcare Blog10 Comments

Healthcare-associated infections, Patient Stories and Patient Safety

Antibiotic Resistance and Antibiotic Use (Stewardship)

C. diff survivor and advocate shares her story

Guest Author: Nancy C Caralla Founding Executive Director, President of the C Diff Foundation. My name is Nancy Caralla, and I know all too much about Clostridium difficile (C. diff). I am a nurse and contracted C. diff while caring for patients suffering from this horrible infection. Now, I am a C. diff survivor. Tragically, Read More >

February 25, 2015 by CDC's Safe Healthcare Blog104 Comments

Healthcare-associated infections, Patient Stories and Patient Safety

Category: Patient Stories and Patient Safety

Clean Hands May Have Saved My Son’s Life

Patient Safety Representatives Unite to Implement Global Patient Safety Action Plan in the United States

A Back to Basics Approach to Prevent Infection

What You Should Know about Hand Hygiene

C. diff survivor and advocate shares her story