The key details to know:
1. Mount Sinai used The Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare’s Targeted Solutions Tool for Hand Hygiene to track compliance monthly and bolster improvement efforts.
2. Hand hygiene compliance increased from an average of 69 percent in 2015 to 89 percent in 2018 through the use of trained anonymous observers, hand hygiene dashboards, reward programs and meetings.
3. Additionally, the system saw a 59 percent decrease in hospital-acquired infections between 2015 and 2018.
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