Healthy hands, healthy facility. A provider does more than reduce influenza rates with a hand-sanitizing program that is implemented by residents.

摘要

A long term care facility is just such a place: Residents are in frequent contact with others, because they share rooms and dining areas. An additional concern is that long term care residents usually receive their personal care from nurses who are mothers and who are therefore in daily contact with children coming from very infectious situations-schools. Every parent is aware of how quickly flu and colds can spread throughout classrooms. Encouraging hand-washing in schools, at home, and in long term care facilities can close down this "infection highway" and improve public health in the process.