1 Making Hand Hygiene as Natural as Breathing x Past Successes & New Goals of the Provincial Program 2012 Co-Chair, Provincial Hand Hygiene Working Group & Regional Manager, Infection Prevention, Northern Health 2013 Co-Chair, Provincial Hand Hygiene Working Group & Director of Patient Safety, BC Ministry of Health Deanna Hembroff Brian Sagar
2 Background 2010: Office of the Auditor General. Formation of Provincial Hand Hygiene Working Group. Clinical Care Management (CCM) priority area.
Successes : Provincial policy issued. Best practice doc issued. Auditing in acute care sites.
Successes : Public reporting. Aggregate data. Occupational results (Annual).
Results to Date Provincial compliance rate = 70% Three year goal = 80% 5
Lessons Learned 6 Implementing a provincial program requires: Philosophy of evidence-based care. Multidisciplinary collaboration of experts. Sub-working groups to manage large work volume. An effective Secretariat. Regular integration of feedback from front-line workers.
Lessons Learned 7 Implementing a provincial program requires: Early engagement with consistent Ministry representative who understands the history & rational of decisions. Province-wide participation on working groups. Effective internal communication. Flexibility.
Where Next..? 8 Auditing of residential & long-term care. Facility-level public reporting. Clinician, staff & patient engagement.
9 Thank You. Questions? Comments?