April 2019

This year's theme is: Clean Care Conversations.

Whether you’re a patient, visitor, provider or worker in a healthcare setting—cleaning your hands is one of the best ways to prevent infection. Clean care saves lives.

Every year 220,000 Canadian patients (approximately one in nine) develop a hospital-acquired infection during their stay in hospital. An estimated 8,000 of those patients will lose their lives.

Learn how to start a compassionate clean care conversation with your healthcare provider, patient, or colleague. Visit the CPSI website to register for the Clean Care Conversations Webinar, listen to a patient podcast, download tip sheets for public and healthcare providers or take the clean care conversations quiz!

Keep yourself and patients safe, by cleaning your hands!