Hand washing improving, but 25 percent of Michigan hospitals falling behind, report says

Hand washing improving, but 25 percent of Michigan hospitals falling behind, report says - Crain's Detroit Business:
"One in four hospitals in Michigan has not implemented recommended practices and policies to ensure proper hand washing by staff to prevent hospital-acquired infections, according to a new report by the Leapfrog Group, a Washington, D.C.-based business group focused on improving patient safety.
While hospitals overall showed improvement for hand hygiene in 2014, rural hospitals aren’t performing as well as urban hospitals, said the report, which was released by the Economic Alliance for Michigan and analyzed by San Francisco-based Castlight Health.
...“It puts patients, clinicians, and all health care workers at risk when hand-washing is not a priority. Hospital-acquired infections kill about 10 percent of those afflicted,” said Binder, quoting a report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.