As healthcare reform focuses more on value for patients, many hospitals are making quality and patient safety top goals. However patient safety is a broad category of important issues. Here, Gina ...

Dental offices are facing a continued dental hygienist shortage that’s impacting patient scheduling for cleanings. It’s not uncommon to hear from patients it took months to get an appointment for a ...

The following are hand hygiene patient safety tools geared toward patient education and involvement, compiled from Becker’s Hospital Review and Becker’s ASC Review. 1. The New York State Department of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . As part of a pilot program, patients and visitors performed audits of HCW hand hygiene compliance. During the ...

Sometimes it's difficult to know what patients need comprehensively or what they want cosmetically. So instead of guessing, ask. How? I recommend to many of my clients that they use a hygiene patient ...

YAKIMA, Wash. -- Dental hygiene students at Yakima Valley College will conduct a dental screening clinic and are seeking patients between 18 and 45 years of age who have not had a professional teeth ...

The CDC, with support from the CDC Foundation and Kimberly-Clark Corp., have developed a free, downloadable brochure on hand hygiene for patients. The brochure answers questions about why hand hygiene ...

Kimberly-Clark, as part of its healthcare-associated infections website, provides a free, downloadable flyer for patients on hand hygiene. The two-page “Patient’s Guide to Hand Hygiene” identifies ...

BRAINERD — Central Lakes College Dental Hygiene Program is now accepting patients in its on-campus dental clinic. Beginning February 2026, dental hygiene students will begin seeing patients from ...

You can lead a doctor to disinfection, but how do you get them to clean ... or wipe ... or swab a stethoscope? That's the question raised by a new quality improvement ...