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How You Can Support the McKnight Fund for Patient Safety Dr. Evelyn McKnight is a nationally recognized patient safety advocate and survivor of one of the largest viral outbreaks in American health care history, who turned her personal tragedy into a crusade to save lives. Learn how you too can support this imp

We need YOUR help! Support injection safety and other patient safety efforts. Give today to protect health and save lives. We need $x to reach our $15,000 goal! [Link: http://bit.ly/2IX4kxl]

The Evelyn and Thomas McKnight Family Fund for Patient Safety Join me in supporting the Evelyn and Thomas McKnight Family Fund for Patient Safety, which provides support for injection safety and other patient safety efforts.

Join me in supporting the Evelyn and Thomas McKnight Family Fund for Patient Safety, which provides support for injection safety and other patient safety efforts.

The Evelyn and Thomas McKnight Family Fund for Patient Safety Join me in supporting the Evelyn and Thomas McKnight Family Fund for Patient Safety, which provides support for injection safety and other patient safety efforts.

This is National Patient Safety Awareness Week! Read about local efforts to improve patient safety here:

Patient Safety Awareness Week - HONOReform Patient Safety Awareness Week and a new Nebraska legislative bill that increases funding for the Nebraska Coalition for Patient Safety

Thanks for the info, APIC!

Settings of Care | Infection Prevention and You There are many different types of healthcare facilities. Each one is unique and has a unique way of caring for patients. Likewise, each healthcare setting can present different infection risks. Depending on where you go to receive care, it’s important to know the right questions to ask and the impor...

Good advice during International Infection Prevention Week (and every week!)
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Take the time to thank an Infection Preventionist for keeping our healthcare safe! Read what they do here:
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We were honored to present to 300 committed Infection Preventionists in Minneapolis recently. Happy Infection Prevention Week, everyone!

Important information

Why five patients in the same hospital contracted a rare blood infection A cluster of bloodstream infections caused by an uncommon, and potentially deadly, bacteria led investigators to a nurse with a secret.

Evelyn McKnight's work began as a response to an unthinkable, preventable tragedy.

"By building safeguards into the injection process, incentivizing health care providers at all levels to universally follow fundamental safety standards, and educating and reeducating providers, all patients will be protected all the time. Future tragedies can be avoided."

HONOReform offers a continuing education presentation at low or no cost. Learn more about Evelyn's story and the programs offered in this piece.

Preventing the Unthinkable - HONOReform Healthcare providers in all types of settings have reviewed and followed safe medical injection best practices. Nonetheless, contamination—the “unthinkable”—still happens. The CDC estimates that there have been more than 50 outbreaks of Hepatitis C and/or Hepatitis B in the past decade due to reus.....

Oh no! In my own backyard!

Podiatry Clinic Exposes Patients From Winnebago and Omaha Tribes To HIV, Hepatitis At least 35 people at the podiatry clinic of the Indian Health Service hospital in Winnebago, Neb., have possibly been exposed to Hepatitis and HIV. An