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Patient safety is an important priority at Toronto Grace.
We have many activities in place to help prevent and control infections.
Toronto Grace Health Centre Infection Rates
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Method for Gathering Hygiene Compliance
All hospitals were required to collect a minimum of 200 observations for every 100 hospital beds. Direct observation of hand hygiene was completed at all hospitals, including TGHC, by trained observers using a standard provincial audit tool. Here is how it was calculated
# of times hand hygiene performed
------------------------------------------------------------------ x 100
# of observed hand hygiene indications
The observations were on the Four Moments for Hand Hygiene
| Percentage of times that staff performed hand hygiene before patient and/or patient environment contact |
73% |
| Percentage of times staff performed hand hygiene after patient and/or patient environment contact |
61% |
What is Hand Hygiene?
- Hand hygiene s using sanitizer or washing with soap and water.
- Hand cleaning is something we all do, but we need to do better - at the right time and the right way.
- Every patient has the right to ask their care provider if they have washed their hands.
- Good hand washing is the most successful way to reduce and prevent healthcare-associated infections.
What are Healthcare-associated Infections?
When Should I Wash/Sanitize My Hands
- Sanitize/wash your hands before you enter the hospital, at the front door.
- Sanitize/wash your hands before entering a patient?s room.
- Sanitize/wash your hands after you leave a patient?s room.
- Sanitize/wash your hands when leaving the hospital.
What is C-difficile?
| Aug 2009 | Sep 2009 | Oct 2009 | Nov 2009 | Dec 2009 | Jan 2010 | |
|
Number of New Cases of C. Difficile |
<5 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
<5 |
<5 |
<5 |
|
|
0.28 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.30 |
0.56 |
0.29 |
Staphylococcus aureus (S-aureus) is a germ that lives on the skin and mucous membrane of healthy people. Occasionally, S-aureus can cause infection. When S.aureus develops resistance to certain antibiotics, it is called methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA.
What is MRSA bacteraemia?
What is Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE)?
VRE is a type of enterococcus that has developed resistance to many common antibiotics, especially Vancomycin. VRE is spread from one person to another by contact, usually on the hands of caregivers. VRE can be present on the hands of the caregivers? hands either by touching contaminated material excreted by an infected patient /person or contaminated equipment. VRE can survive well on hands and or can survive for weeks on inanimate objects such as toilet seats, taps, doorhandles, and bedrails. VRE is easy to kill with the proper use of disinfectants
VRE Bacteraemia is the presence of the VRE bacteria in the blood stream and is referred to as a blood stream infection.
| Year 2009 | Sept | Oct | Nov | Dec | 4 Months Summary |
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Number of MRSA bacteraemia |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Rate |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
|
Number of VRE bacteraemia |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Rate |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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