Our Challenge

Some 220,000 people are afflicted with health care associated infections (HCAI) in Canada every year, and of those, 8,000 to 12,000 will die as a result of acquiring the infection. Now imagine being able to help those patients with something so seemingly simple as…better hand hygiene. 

Hand hygiene is considered the most important and effective infection prevention measure in the spread of health care associated infections. Despite this, compliance with hand hygiene protocols by health care providers continues to be unacceptably low.

Proper hand hygiene could potentially reduce health care associated infection by up to 50%.

Our Clinical Care Management team is here to support you, as you work to improve hand hygiene. Get started with the resources through the links above, or contact us today.

 

Click HERE for the Hand Hygiene Clinical Expert Group

Click HERE for the Hand Hygiene backgrounder

Key Contacts

Dr. Elizabeth Bryce, Clinical Lead
Regional Medical Director, Infection Prevention Control
Vancouver Coastal Health
Elizabeth.Bryce@vch.ca

Katie Procter, Quality Leader
BC Patient Safety & Quality Council
kprocter@bcpsqc.ca
604.668.8212

Heather A Davidson, Manager - CCM

Ministry of Health
heather.a.davidson@gov.bc.ca

250.952.3540