How one hospital system turned around hand hygiene

Hand hygiene is easier said than done. Sentara Healthcare, a nonprofit health system that includes 10 acute care hospitals and covers 2 million residents in Virginia and North Carolina, knew that all too well before it launched a system-wide testing and implementation project that increased hand hygiene compliance from about 77 percent to 95 percent.

FierceHealthcare spoke with Sentara about how it did it: changing the culture of the system, the hospitals and the staff, including the worst offenders--physicians. Click here to read more.