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Kemptville District Hospital

2675 Concession Road, Kemptville, ON K0G 1J0
Tel:   (613) 258-6133    Fax:   (613) 258-7853

Public Reporting of Patient Safety Indicators

  

Clostridium Difficile Reporting (C-Diff):
	June 2009	July 2009	Aug 2009	Sept 2009	Oct 2009
Number of new cases of C-Diff	0	0	0	0	0
Clostridium Difficile Rate	0	0	0	0	0

Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) public reporting:
	April-June 2009	July-Sept 2009	Oct-Dec 2009	Jan-Mar 2010
Number of new cases of MRSA	0	0	0	0
MRSA Rate	0	0	0	0
Number of new cases of VRE	0	0	0	0
VRE Rate	0	0	0	0

Hand Hygiene Compliance Rate

Hand hygiene is known to significantly reduce the spread of infections in hospitals. Effective hand hygiene practices by health care practitioners improves patient and worker safety and helps prevent the spread of hospital-acquired infections. Our health care workers do practice effective hand hygiene; the provincial audit ensures that they are washing their hands at the right time and in the right fashion.

	2009-2010	2010-2011	2011-2012
Hand Hygiene Before Initial Patient/Patient Environment Contact	81.66%	0	0
Hand Hygiene After Initial Patient/Patient Environment Contact	86.83%	0	0