We prepared for a potential surge in Intensive Care cases due to Covid-19 with the purchase of 15 next generation Progressa™ ICU beds. These beds promote early mobility, getting patients up and walking sooner, and are designed to optimize patient and caregiver safety while reducing bedsores. Your donations to the Health Care Foundation have funded patient lifts in the Critical Care Unit, surgical instrumentation and staff and patient initiatives. In 2014/2015, the Health Care Foundation funded the Self Auditing Hand Hygiene Project across Eastern Health. iPad technology aided the promotion of hand hygiene, and hand hygiene compliance rates have improved across Eastern Health as a result. In 2014/2015, compliance rates were 63%. Thanks to technology funded by the Health Care Foundation, hand hygiene compliance rates are currently 93%. Hand hygiene is the most basic infection control practice, and most effect in preventing the risk of transmission of infectious diseases. The improvement in hand hygiene compliance rates creates a culture of safety for our patients, and provides better outcomes.

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