Maryland Hospital Hand Hygiene Collaborative
Maryland Hospital Hand Hygiene Collaborative Overview
The Maryland Hospital Hand Hygiene Collaborative campaign is an important statewide initiative to enhance the prevention of healthcare-associated infections (HAI) in Maryland hospitals. The goal of the Maryland Hospital Hand Hygiene Collaborative is to strengthen and compliment the work already being done to improve Hand Hygiene.
The Maryland Hospital Hand Hygiene Collaborative was officially launched by Lt. Governor Anthony Brown and Secretary John Colmers of the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene on November 3, 2009.
Support for the Collaborative is provided, in part, through a cooperative funding agreement to support surveillance and prevention of healthcare-associated infections that was received by the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). This initiative is one of several recommendations of the Maryland Health Quality and Cost Council (MHQCC) and is being lead by the Maryland Patient Safety Center
Governor Martin O'Malley created the Maryland Health Quality and Cost Council to focus on priorities for improving health care across the state. Chaired by Lieutenant Governor Anthony G. Brown, the Council brings together health care leaders and other interested parties in Maryland to collaborate on ways to improve quality and contain costs across the public and private sectors. The Evidence-Based Medicine Workgroup and the Council have selected hand hygiene as a key initiative, with a goal of increasing hand hygiene compliance among hospital professionals to reduce healthcare-associated infections.
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