Here are five highlights:
1. The organization is launching a digital campaign on the importance of hand hygiene.
2. Leading Age New Jersey is also collaborating with the New Jersey Department of Health, Communicable Disease Service and the Infection Control Assessment and Response team to promote patient safety and decrease healthcare-associated infections.
3. The patient safety program will operate nationally over a three-year period.
4. “It seems so obvious, yet over 80 percent of disease are spread by touch, and studies who that only 30 percent of people actually sue soap when washing their hands,” said Michele Kent, LeadingAge New Jersey president and CEO.
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