In support of its ongoing efforts to improve hand hygiene compliance in healthcare, GP PRO, a division of Georgia-Pacific, introduces the SafeHaven Portable Hand Hygiene Monitoring System, a connected technology system for sustained hand hygiene performance improvements in healthcare facilities that was inspired by the World Health Organization (WHO) Multimodal Hand Hygiene Improvement Strategy.
GP PRO’s SafeHaven system is a solution for hand hygiene excellence that taps into the growing trend of connected technologies in healthcare and leverages the Internet of Things (IoT). Recently updated to enhance usability and performance, the system includes:
- Wearable hand sanitizing devices and alcohol-based hand sanitizer refills, which offer access to hand sanitizer at the point of care;
- Real-time data collection via electronic monitoring through the portable device, which captures individual hand hygiene data that is transmitted to the SafeHaven Web Dashboard, offering insights that support targeted interventions to improve quality outcomes;
- Real-time performance feedback for staff, which provides visibility to goal progression and encourages positive reinforcement to inspire behavior change and an improved culture of safety; and
- Ongoing GP PRO support with a Success Manager and a SafeHaven Staff Training and Engagement Toolkit, to help reinforce a positive and safe workplace culture.
We recognize that improving hand hygiene compliance in healthcare is as much about changing mindsets as it is about changing behaviors, and we realize that, historically, change management of this kind can be daunting to undertake. SafeHaven, though, is an easy-to-implement system that can readily support a facility’s existing hand hygiene compliance practices to help impact a positive transformation toward greater compliance, fewer HAIs, and improved safety for patients and staff.
Ashley Butler, vice president and general manager, Skin Care, with GP PRO
According to Butler, the SafeHaven system is informed by the WHO’s Multimodal Hand Hygiene Improvement Strategy, which suggests that implementing multimodal strategies, particularly hand hygiene compliance, is effective to improve infection prevention and control practices and reduce HAIs. Among WHO’s recommendations is the availability of alcohol-based handrub at the point of care.
WHO’s multimodal strategy aligns with the Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) HAI prevention recommendations, the first of which is sound hand hygiene execution, notes GP PRO.
Find out more about how to empower productivity and sustained hand hygiene and to improve health outcomes with GP PRO’s Healthcare Products and the SafeHaven Automated Hand Hygiene Monitoring System at GP PRO.