Updates:

• Presentation Handouts from our 9/2/09 meeting
  

• 09/08/2009 - The State Newspaper - "Grime Fighters: The war against germs comes to Columbia"
  
  The orange traffic cones connected by yellow tape grab your attention.
  The white tape-lined outline of a body on the floor is a little scary.
  Then somebody wearing white coveralls slaps a “Suspect” sticker on your shirt.
  You’re either alarmed or amused, depending on how closely you’ve read the words on the yellow tape and the coveralls. This is a Grime Scene Investigation by GSI: SC.
  Read more...

South Carolina Clean Hands Campaign: Save Lives, Clean Your Hands!

The South Carolina Hospital Association (SCHA) has launched a new statewide hand hygiene initiative in the state’s nearly100 public and private member hospitals. The “SC Clean Hands Campaign: Save Lives, Clean Your Hands!” is a part of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) global hand hygiene initiative to reduce healthcare associated infection (HAI).

May 5, 2009 highlighted a kickoff statewide webinar with WHO and all member SCHA hospitals. Special presentations were given by Professor Didier Pittet from WHO, Dr. Peter Pronovost from Johns Hopkins, Dr. Thomas  Zweng from Novant Health, Dixie Roberts from our state Public Health Office, Helen Haskell from Mothers Against Medical Error and several South Carolina hospitals who have had successes in reducing HAI.

The South Carolina Clean Hands Campaign: Save Lives, Clean Your Hands! partnership with WHO also includes many key public health and community organizations such as AARP, South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (SC DHEC), Mothers Against Medical Errors (MAME), Palmetto APIC, and Novant Health.   South Carolina is the first state in the United States to embark on a statewide hand hygiene campaign in partnership with the World Health Organization.

Kickoff Webinar (May 5, 2009)

The SC Hospital Association and several wonderful partners collaborated with the World Health Organization (WHO) to host a kickoff webinar for our statewide South Carolina Hand Hygiene Campaign.

Presentations:

• Welcome and Introductions (Dr. Foster)
  
  
• Brief Overview of SC Healthcare Alliance for Infection Prevention (Dr. Foster) (ppt)
  
  
• World Health Organization Hand Hygiene Campaign (Dr. Engineer/Professor Pittet) (pdf)
  
  
• Johns Hopkins STOP BSI Project/Link to Hand Hygiene Campaign (Dr. Pronovost) (no slides)
  
  
• NOVANT Health System Hand Hygiene Campaign (Dr. Zweng/Suzie Rakyta) (ppt)
  
  
• South Carolina Hospital Hand Hygiene Success Stories
  
  
  • Bon Secours St. Francis, Greenville (Clinical Perspective) (Michelle Bushey) (ppt)
    
    
  • Palmetto Richland (The Marketing Perspective) (Tim Floyd) (ppt)
    
    
  • Chester Hospital (Leadership & Community Perspective) (Craig Walker) (no slides)
    
    
• Hand Hygiene from a Public Health Perspective (Dixie Roberts) (ppt)
  
  
• Hand Hygiene from a Patient Advocate Perspective (Helen Haskell) (no slides)
  
  
• Initial Plans for the South Carolina Hand Hygiene Campaign (Dr. Foster) (ppt)

Contact Information:

• Dr. Rick Foster - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
• Lorri Gibbons - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
  
• Dr. Cyrus Engineer/Professor Pittet - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
• Dr. Thomas Zweng - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
• Suzie Rakyta - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
• Michelle Bushey - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
• Tim Floyd - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
• Helen Haskell - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
• Dixie Roberts - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Tools:

• Bushey - Hand Hygiene Posters & Explanation (.doc)
  
  
• Novant's Hand Hygiene Website
  
  
• HIDA Website
  
  
• WHO - Save Lives: Clean Your Hands
  
  
• WHO Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care
  
  
• WHO Resources
  
  
• Guide to Implementation of the WHO Multimodal Hand Hygiene Improvement Strategy
  
  
• Joint Commission Resources

Steering Committee

• Dixie Roberts - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
• Doris Gleason - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
• Dr. Tom Zweng - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
• Ellen Synovec - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
• Julie Brown - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
• Kevin Ridenouor - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
• Kimberly Hubbard - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
• Lead Wadford - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
• Libby Dvorsak - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
  
• Lorri Gibbons - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
• Mary Stargel - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
  
• Michelle Bushy - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
  
• Nancy Lumley - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
  
• Dr. Richard Foster - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
  
• Sue Boeker - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
• Suzie Rakyta - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
  
• Tim Floyd - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
  
• Ursula Callan - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Our Partners

• WHO
• SCETV
• Novant Health
• SC DHEC
• AARP
• USC, Center for Nursing Leadership
• SCHA
• APIC
• South Carolina Department of Education
  
• Patient Advocate Groups
  

Point of Contact for Each Hospital

Each hospital should have a point of contact for hand hygiene. Please contact Kimberly Hubbard at SCHA ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or 803-796-3080) with your point of contact's name, title, phone, and email address.