CDC, GoJo partner on hand-sanitation education in care settings

ATLANTA, Ga. - The CDC Foundation on Thursday partnered with GoJo to provide unbranded hand hygiene educational materials and tools for patients, healthcare providers and caregivers in U.S. healthcare facilities such as hospitals, nursing homes and other ambulatory care locations in effort to improve hand hygiene practices in these settings to help reduce the number of healthcare-associated infections.

 

CDC recommends that healthcare providers practice hand hygiene at key points in time to disrupt the transmission of microorganisms to patients, visitors and healthcare workers. Patients and their loved ones can play a role in helping to prevent infections by practicing good hand hygiene themselves as well as asking or reminding their healthcare providers to perform hand hygiene.

 

"This partnership expands patients' and healthcare providers' knowledge of hand hygiene practices," said Charles Stokes, president and CEO of the CDC Foundation. "We are grateful to GoJo for their support to help protect patients from healthcare-associated infections."

 

"We know the single most important measure to reduce HAIs is effective hand hygiene," said Joe Kanfer, chairman and CEO GoJo. "Handwashing and hand sanitizing are primary infection prevention actions that healthcare workers take to overcome the challenge of HAIs, reduce the need for antibiotics and combat antibiotic resistance. We look forward to working with the CDC so that, together, we can improve awareness of - and advance the science of - hand hygiene and its importance in improving public health."

 

This project is part of the Safe Healthcare Initiative, a partnership program coordinated by CDC's Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion and the CDC Foundation to eliminate healthcare-associated infections.