Solving common personal protective equipment challenges through simple innovation

By Lindsay Samoila, Raymond Elwood and Justin Quinn In the words of Charles F. Kettering, “If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong”. This is exactly what the infection prevention and control (IPAC) department at Hôtel-Dieu Grace Healthcare (HDGH) found was occurring with their current Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) practices.    Regular quality checks identified that the current system of storing PPE on a series of carts throughout HDGH did not facilitate best practices for donning or hand hygiene.  Growing linen costs and lingering low hand hygiene compliance rates were also driving the need for a better PPE storage solution. To find a better way, an inter-professional team was created including infection prevention and control, environmental services, materials management, frontline staff, ergonomics,

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